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Last week, four firefighters were killed and nearly a dozen were injured after a fire ripped through a garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan. What is life like now for the survivors of Rana Plaza?
The Rana Plaza disaster held a mirror up to the developed world, namely consumers hungry for cheap clothing and Western brands using low-cost production to meet demand. A decade on, are the ...
On Monday, Bangladeshi police charged 41 people, including the owner of the Rana Plaza complex, with murder over the 2013 factory collapse that killed more than 1,100 people. According to Business ...
It’s ten years since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed at least 1,132 garment workers and injured several thousand more. The collapse of the ...
The official Rana Plaza death toll stood at 1,127 on Monday as rescue efforts were finally brought to a close. At the same time, thousands of miles away, international retailers embraced a labor ...
However, activists and the survivors of the Nov. 24 Tazreen fire — in which at least 112 people perished in a locked factory on Dhaka’s outskirts later found to be producing garments for major ...
The lesson to be learned from Rana Plaza and other subsequent supply chain disasters such as the 2015 port explosion in Tianjin, China (death toll 104), the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in ...
The collapse of Rana Plaza on March 24, 2013, put the focus on fast fashion. But research shows that stressed and struggling consumers don’t have the luxury of making ethical choices.