Some news! Today marks the launch of the Rana Plaza Solidarity Collective, a UK group that has been set up to mark the tenth anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse.
We have a schedule of events taking place around the anniversary on the 24th April which can all be found here: https://ranaplaza-solidarity.org/
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For those of you that don't remember - the Rana Plaza factory complex in Bangladesh was an eight-storey building housing five garment factories.
This overcrowded, poorly built complex became a symbol of global inequality when, on 24 April 2013, it collapsed in on itself – its straining internal pillars buckling and cracking under the weight of too many storeys, too many machines and bales of cloth, too many human beings packed in tight rows.
Considered the deadliest unintended structural failure of modern times, Rana Plaza was a mass industrial homicide. An estimated 1,138 people were killed. Thousands more were trapped in the rubble.
Twenty-nine global brands were identified as having recent or current orders with at least one of the garment factories in the Rana Plaza building. These brands included Primark, Matalan, Benetton, Mango, C&A, Walmart, The Children’s Place, and KiK.
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