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Company says its own code of conduct goes further than the global accord prompted by the Rana Plaza disaster 10 years ago

The garment factory that collapsed worked with the likes of Primark, Benetton, and Bonmarche.

Ten years to the day after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh, a disaster that killed more than 1,100 workers and injured another 2,500, the global addiction to cheap clothing remains strong.

Men of Bangladeshi origin say they cannot find homes after paying landlord to live in ‘humiliating’ conditions

Ninety-one Saudi nationals and some 66 foreign nationals from 12 countries arrived in Saudi Arabia’s coastal city of Jeddah after being evacuated from Sudan. The evacuation was carried out by the Saudi Royal Navy with the support of various armed forces. The Foreign Ministry confirmed the arrival of the Saudis…

On April 24, 2013, a multistory garment factory complex in Bangladesh called Rana Plaza collapsed, killing more than 1,000 workers and injuring another 2,500. It remains the worst accident in the history of the apparel industry and one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the world.

It’s ten years since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed at least 1,132 garment workers and injured several thousand more. The collapse of the eight-storey building on April 24 2013, which housed five factories making clothes for western high street brands like Accessorize,…

Countries across the world have declared dates for Eid but many of them fall on different days

But you know what’s funny? All my life, I have been trained to be an engineer. Look at me now, I am a pickle seller!