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Rana Plaza Owner, 17 Others Indicted in Connection with Factory Collapse
Eighteen suspects were charged in a Dhaka court on Tuesday with violating Bangladesh’s building laws by allegedly colluding to construct the Rana Plaza garment factory complex against code, before it collapsed, killed…
Three years after Rana Plaza disaster, has anything changed?
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 factory workers, the rights and safety of workers are in greater focus, but…
Three Years After Rana Plaza, Has Anything Changed?
LONDON, United Kingdom — Sunday will mark the three-year anniversary of Rana Plaza, the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry, which killed 1,134 people when a building in Bangladesh…
Three Years after Rana Plaza
On the morning of April 24th, 2013, thousands of men, women, and children were at work inside Rana Plaza, a large complex in a district northwest of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The building, which…
Repost: From Under the Rubble
The nine-storied Rana Plaza, housing six ready-made garments (RMG) factories, collapsed on 24th April 2013 at 8.57 am, after generators had kicked-in following a power-cut. Khowas Ali, a small-time trader in Savar…