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Rana Plaza collapse

Trainees work at Snowtex garment factory in Dhamrai, near Dhaka, Bangladesh

‘Just a respite’: Accord to protect Bangladesh’s garment workers gets temporary extension

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​​​​​​​A last-minute deal between brands, retailers and unions to extend negotiations for three more months will keep from lapsing an agreement aimed at protecting garment workers’ safety in Bangladesh. It was originally set to expire on May 31.

Relatives of victims killed in the collapse of Rana Plaza mourn on the first year anniversary of the accident. More than 1,100 factory workers were killed when the garment factory complex the worked in collapsed. Today, the owner of the building was char

Bangladesh factory owners charged with murder of more than 1,100 garment workers

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Rafiqul Islam is president of a labor federation based next to the site of the Rana Plaza collapse. In the foreground is a field filled with rubble from the building, and beyond that is the site of the collapse.

Two years after it collapsed, Rana Plaza is still haunted by the smell of death

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A woman holds a picture of her relative, a garment worker who went missing in the Rana Plaza collapse, on the first year anniversary of the accident.

In Bangladesh, will a legal system ‘full of holes’ prosecute those responsible for the Rana Plaza factory collapse?

Business, Economics and Jobs
A woman holds a picture of her relative, a garment worker who went missing in the Rana Plaza collapse, on the first year anniversary of the accident.

In Bangladesh, will a legal system ‘full of holes’ prosecute those responsible for the Rana Plaza factory collapse?

Business, Economics and Jobs
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