A rally by boats with safety messages, was arranged on 12th December, with ten boats with several volunteers on the bay of Bengal along side the ships waiting for dismantling in the yards. All the workers who were working in the yards were witnessing this unique and message based event …Read More
A joint team of district administration and forest department on 24 February 2014 evicted two ship breaking yards which were set up by destroying coastal forest in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong five years back. SK Steel and SK Ship Breaking and Recycling were able to lease the land illegally in …Read More
YPSA observed World Environment day. A rally of at least 1700 people was organized on the environment day where people from all sphere of life are joined demanding for a low carbon economy and stop pollution in the shipbreaking yards. The rally was started from the Chittagong Stadium corner to …Read More
The ship breaking workers arranged Human Chain on the World Human Rights Day (10 December’07) in front of Chittagong Press Club and the workers also submitted memorandum, mentioning some of their major demands, to the District Commissioner of Chittagong. The Ship breaking workers claimed: 1. Job security 2. Safety in …Read More
