Rana Plaza Tragedy
Rana Plaza TragedyRetailers, unions agree on 3-month extension to Bangladesh workers’ safety accord
Unions said they will pull out of the organisation now running the accord - called the RMG Sustainability Council - if retailers do not commit to the legally binding portion of the agreement
Meril-Prothom Alo Savar Support Fund
They go ahead with their studies and dreams
Twenty children of families affected by the Rana Plaza disaster are studying in various educational institutions on scholarships from the Meril-Prothom Alo Savar Support Fund
Rana Plaza collapse: Wait for justice doesn't end even in 8 years
Ashraful Islam was born in a poor family at Gauripur of Mymensingh. When he was only 18 he came to Dhaka in search of work. He joined a garment factory in Rana Plaza of Savar. Ill-fated Ashraful lost ...
Rana Plaza disaster
Picturing Bangladesh
The pictures are painful – but then the event was extraordinarily painful, a national trauma that persisted long after the rubble had been cleared.
Brands urged to extend workers’ safety deal, eight years after Rana Plaza disaster
Labour leaders want the Accord to be renewed in Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest exporter of garments, and extended to other countries with dangerous working conditions
57pc Rana Plaza survivors remain unemployed: Survey
Nearly 57 per cent of the survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse have remained unemployed, according to a survey
HC issues rule on why Rana Plaza owner should not get bail
The High Court (HC) on Monday issued a rule seeking explanation as to why Sohel Rana, the owner of Rana Plaza should not get bail in a murder case filed over Rana Plaza tragedy that had claimed 1,134 ...
Rana Plaza owner Khalek dies of coronavirus
The owner of Rana Plaza, the illegally constructed building that collapsed in the worst-ever tragedy in the country’s readymade garment industry, has died of coronavirus in Savar, Dhaka on early ...
Rana Plaza tragedy’s 7th anniv Friday
The seventh anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, the worst-ever tragedy in the country’s ready-made garment (RMG) industry, will be observed on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Film on an RMG worker who escapes child marriage, leads trade union
A new film offering a glimpse into the lives of garment workers in Bangladesh is challenging stereotypes about women by showing them driving the economy and fighting for justice in factories.“Made in ...
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