(September 23, 2015) - Boston Global Forum (BGF) is developing an Ethics Code of Conduct for Cyber Peace and Security (ECCC) that prescribes Internet behaviors. A draft version of that code, ECCC Version 1.0, is conceived and developed by BGF’s CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan....
(October 17, 2015)- China's President Xi Jinping did provide no definition to the term “militaritization” for its actions in the South China Sea, and in the view of Bonnie Glaser, the senior adviser for Asia and director of China Power Project at Center for Strategic...
In an interview with Boston Global Forum (BGF), esteemed journalist, political analyst and author, Hedrick Smith, lends a political historian’s perspective to explain the reactions of American retailers to the tragic Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, in April 2014....
In all its reports about the Bangladesh factory collapse, the western media seems to have overlooked an important question- Was Rana Plaza an example of capitalism gone wrong? David Rowlands from Australia's Green Left Weekly says that the disaster, that rocked the...
President and CEO of Fair Trade USA, Paul Rice, argues that increasing threats to worker safety are because businesses are forgetting their social responsibility. "Putting people back into business," might be as (if not more) necessary as reforming legislation and...
The Rana plaza collapse in Bangladesh has raised a critical call for improvement of working conditions in developing countries. Inspired by this incident, Boston Global Forum directors decided to choose its mission of the year 2013 as “Minimal standards for Worker...
A report, published by the Center for American Progress earlier this month, revealed that the meager wages garment workers make, in return for long laborious working days in dangerous conditions, have further decreased over the past decade. The study, prepared by...
While developed countries debate regulations and trade impositions after the Rana Plaza collapse, Bangladesh needs to independently bolster reforms surrounding the garment industry. At present, the garment industry enjoys special privileges like subsidies and tax...