One of the worst industrial disasters in the modern era took place in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring some 2,500 ...
Twenty years ago, as cheap clothing began flooding the global market, Bangladesh became a sweatshop for the world’s top brands. On April 24, 2013, the eight-story, illegally built Rana Plaza garment ...
The United Nations has found a new villain in the global war on poverty: the very jobs that have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent decades. A new U.N. report, “Roadmap for ...
One year ago this week, the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, killing 1,129 people. The building’s top floors had been added illegally, and their ...
Another catastrophe for workers in Bangladesh. A garment factory collapses and buries hundreds of people. Among the dead are articles of clothing bearing labels many Canadians would recognize. And ...
Despite Bangladesh's efforts to improve the economic condition of garment factory workers, a damning report from management consulting firm Accenture and the World Economic Forum (WEF) paints a very ...