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One Year Later, Here’s Every Company That Hasn’t Paid the Bangladesh Factory Victims - PolicyMic

▻http://www.policymic.com/articles/88325/one-year-later-here-s-every-company-that-hasn-t-paid-the-bangladesh-facto

Carrefour, Auchan et Benetton, donc, entre autres compagnies.

A pair of workers, one’s face highlighted by the light coming through the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, are pinned between pieces of cement. Dust and debris cover their skin and add to their lifelessness. Pieces of fabric are strewn around them, commissioned by the companies that they and hundreds more lost their lives for.

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The now iconic image of the two workers, entitled “Embrace,” lent humanity to the headlines surrounding last year’s massive building collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people.

As survivors and bodies were

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The Deadly Cost of Fashion
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-deadly-cost-of-fashion

A photojournalist who covered last year’s deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh draws connections to New York from clothing labels he found in the rubble.

#Auchan: some promises, but no compensation for Bangladeshi workers
▻http://www.multinationales.org/article197.html

Six months ago, the Rana Plaza building and its five textile factories collapsed, resulting in 1.133 deaths and even more injured. One of the brands for which they were working is Auchan, but the firm still refuses to contribute to the compensation fund. Because of this, the company was nominated in the “Dirty hands, deep pockets” category of the 2013 Pinocchio award. This award is organised by Friends of the Earth France to “name and shame” companies with poor social and environmental records. (...)

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▻http://www.peuples-solidaires.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CP-Indemnisation13092013.pdf

Bangladesh’s other workplace catastrophes- ►http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/20/bangladeshs-other-workplace-catastrophes

Asked what she thought of the possibility that Hazaribagh’s tanneries might eventually move out of the city, the woman told me, “It would be very good…They could start garment factories. This would be cleaner work with a better salary.”

Last week, a deadly fire tore through a garment factory in Dhaka, killing eight workers. This followed the collapse of the Rana Plaza building on more than 1,000 workers, which made it the deadliest ever catastrophe in the history of the garment industry. Last November, a garment factory fire killed more than 100 people. So the tannery worker’s assessment sounds like a sick joke. But the truth is it was a realistic assessment of the deplorable health and safety conditions in Bangladesh.

Engineer Arrested in Bangladeshi Building Collapse - NYTimes.com

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/world/asia/engineer-arrested-in-bangladeshi-building-collapse.html?nl=todaysheadlines&

SAVAR, Bangladesh — In an unexpected turn in the investigation into the deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza building, the Bangladeshi police on Thursday arrested the engineer who warned a day before the disaster that the building was unsafe.

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The Bangladesh factory collapse and the drive for profit - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/27/pers-a27.html

The Bangladesh factory collapse and the drive for profit
27 April 2013

[More than 300 people are dead, mainly garment workers, and many more are injured following the collapse of the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh this week. The tragedy is one of the world’s worst industrial disasters, but it will not be the last, as global corporations constantly drive for greater profits through the exploitation of sweatshop labour.

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