Bangladesh’s garment factories must never become death traps again

“We don’t want another Rana Plaza.” Those were the parting words when I spoke with a Bangladeshi garment worker who miraculously survived the Rana Plaza building collapse in April 2013. The building housed five garment factories employing thousands of poor Bangladeshi workers. I met her in a hospital over a year ago, where she was battling depression and nightmares. “I don’t want to be a garment worker,” she told me. “I am too afraid to go back.” Expand © Clean Clothes Campaign, 2019 She described the horror of being fished out from the ruins several days after the building collapsed.…

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