| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, November 15, 2013 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
The Centre for South Asian Studies
and The South Asian Journalists’ Association, Toronto
Present
A South Asia in the Media Event
Female Labor and Canadian Brands in Bangladesh: Reporting the Rana Plaza Disaster
On April 24, 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza collapsed in Bangladesh, killing 1,129 and injuring more than 2,500 garment workers. But it was sight of a Joe Fresh label among the devastation that transformed the story for Canadians from another tragedy in the developing world. As a media story, the Rana Plaza tragedy forced an introspective look at the role of retailers, brands and consumers on the working conditions of women who make our clothes.
With
Tarannum Kamlani, Associate Producer CBC TV
Rick Westhead, Foreign Affairs writer, Toronto Star
Moderated by Sujata Berry, CBC Radio
Tarannum Kamlani has had a varied career in her dozen years in the news business, starting in New York in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks as part of the team that put together the New York Times’ Portraits of Grief project. Since moving to Toronto she’s worked on every kind of show from Breakfast Televison on CityTV to Power and Politics on CBC News Network and Q on CBC Radio One. Right now she’s an Associate Producer at CBC Television’s the fifth estate.
Rick Westhead is an award-winning foreign correspondent with The Toronto Star. He was based in New Delhi as the newspaper’s South Asia bureau chief from 2008 until 2011, has won Mary Deanne Shears Award as The Star’s reporter of the year, and has also been a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Globe and Mail and the CBC.
Sujata Berry is an award-winning producer with the CBC Radio program “The Current”. In her 20 years as a producer Ms. Berry has worked at CBC News’ “The National” producing curent affairs programs and documentaries; and the Investigative Unit. She has also produced special news series as part of CBC News Content Units.
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