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At least 49 people, including nine firefighters, were killed and over 200 injured in a fire and massive explosion at a privately-run inland container depot at Sitakunda on the outskirts of the country’s port city Chattogram on Saturday night.
The rescue officials said that the victims in the (...)
A factory fire in Bangladesh has killed 52 people and injured 30 others, emergency services have said.
The blaze broke out on Thursday night at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupganj, an industrial town near the capital Dhaka.
Authorities told AP news agency the fire took hold because (...)
Six years after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse killed over a thousand people, Bangladeshi workers are striking for better wages and safer conditions.
On April 23, 2013, a local television crew shot footage of cracks in the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The building (...)
Closing Dhaka office will limit international ability to inspect clothing supply chains for brands like H&M, Esprit and Primark
An international inspection regime put in place after the collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory killed more than 1,100 people will be forced to leave the (...)
The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building is the bloodiest disaster in the history of the garment industry. Socialist Alternative’s industrial organiser Jerome Small visited the scene, just outside Dhaka in Bangladesh, late last year.
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Early November, 2014. It’s (...)
Most of the survivors, around 66 percent, of the Rana Plaza tragedy are leading an inhuman life in the face of difficulties to meet their daily needs, according to a survey.
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Survey: most workers find it difficult to make ends meet.
A total of 2,222 victims were (...)
This report denotes the responsibility of a peasants’ organization of Bangladesh on the precarious situation of the garment sector and financial activities it operated around them.
Rana Plaza building collapse that took place on 23 April resulting in 1,129 death tolls and 3,500 severe wounded (...)
The collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar shows the urgent need to improve Bangladesh’s protections for worker health and safety, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today.
Reforms should include a drastic overhaul of the government’s system of labour inspections and an end to government efforts to thwart (...)
Sandy Boyer explains why corporate codes of conduct won’t protect workers in low-wage manufacturing centers—and what they need to protect themselves.
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!” Mother Jones
NOW THAT the death toll among garment workers in the building collapse in (...)
BODY RECOVERED YESTERDAY 73 DEATH TOLL 819
For 15 days Hosena has been waiting at Adhar Chandra High School playground for her only daughter Marzina. She had hoped to find her alive but now, in tears, Hosena waits for the body. Marzina was the sole bread earner in the two-member family as (...)
The death toll from the Rana Plaza collapse reached 819 on Wednesday as rescuers were still recovering bodies in the second phase of rescue operation that began on April 29 with heavy equipment.
Seventy-five bodies were recovered between midnight past Tuesday and 9:00pm on Wednesday, according (...)
At least 500 workers died and more than 2,500 were injured in the collapse of a building at Rana Plaza in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The building housed five garment factories that employed mostly women and produced clothes for some of leading retailers of the Global North. This is by far the worst (...)
On the afternoon of 24 April, Rana Plaza, an eight-storey building housing textile factories in Savar, a suburb of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, collapsed. When rescuers gave up searching for survivors on 29 April, the official death toll was 380.
Local police ordered an evacuation of the (...)
It’s past midnight now, I took a shower after returning home but it refuses to go away.
I can smell it on my wet hair as strands blow over my face while the fan whirs above. I can smell it on my nightwear and, as I rest my chin on my clasped hands, I can smell the stench of rotting corpses and (...)
Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) considers the latest garment factory accident in Bangladesh on 24th April 2013 a matter of grave concern and an abominable act of violation of labour laws. The collapse of the eight-story building in which approximately 400 garment (...)
On 24 April 2013 in the morning a tragic incident took place in Savar near the capital of Dhaka that claimed around 293 lives of garment workers, mostly of whom are women.
A 9-storied building completely collapsed to ground and the garment workers inside the building were stuck. It caused a (...)
Delhi.
On Wednesday, April 24, a day after Bangladeshi authorities asked the owners to evacuate their garment factory that employed almost three thousand workers, the building collapsed. The building, Rana Plaza, located in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, produced garments for the commodity chain (...)
The latest human disaster in the Bangladeshi garment industry - a poorly constructed factory building collapses...
At around 9 a.m. on Wednesday 24th April an eight storey building collapsed in Savar, an industrial suburb of Dhaka. Within two minutes the Rana Plaza structure was a mass of (...)
When the government administration fails continuously to act to establish the rule of law, the rule of crooked individuals starts consolidating. Politicians belonging to the party in power and a section of government officials establish their own rule and play with people’s lives to amass money (...)
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Swarms of flies began buzzing around the decomposing bodies sandwiched between slabs of rubble yesterday, a day after the nine-storey Rana Plaza collapsed in Savar. Volunteers, with bare hands, engaged themselves in all-out efforts (...)
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