{"id":14339,"date":"2023-05-02T11:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/non-classifiee\/ten-years-on-has-the-fashion-industry-learned-the-lessons-of-the-rana-plaza-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:54:29","slug":"ten-years-on-has-the-fashion-industry-learned-the-lessons-of-the-rana-plaza-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/news-from-the-front\/ten-years-on-has-the-fashion-industry-learned-the-lessons-of-the-rana-plaza-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten years on, has the fashion industry learned the lessons of the Rana Plaza tragedy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"tatsu-S1exE3_Ys tatsu-section  tatsu-fullscreen tatsu-bg-overlay   tatsu-clearfix\" data-title=\"\"  data-headerscheme=\"background--dark\"><div class=\"tatsu-fullscreen-wrap\"><div class='tatsu-section-pad clearfix' data-padding='{\"d\":\"30px 34% 90px 0%\"}' data-padding-top='30px'><div class=\"tatsu-row-wrap  tatsu-wrap tatsu-row-one-col tatsu-row-has-one-cols tatsu-medium-gutter tatsu-reg-cols  tatsu-clearfix tatsu-r1eee42Otj\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-row \" ><div  class=\"tatsu-column  tatsu-column-no-bg tatsu-one-col tatsu-column-image-none tatsu-column-effect-none  tatsu-H1-ge42OYi\"  data-parallax-speed=\"0\" style=\"\"><div class=\"tatsu-column-inner \" ><div class=\"tatsu-column-pad-wrap\"><div class=\"tatsu-column-pad\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-inline-text clearfix tatsu-BkvsGSpQ3   \" ><style>.tatsu-BkvsGSpQ3 .tatsu-inline-text-inner{width: 100%;text-align: left;padding: 0px 0px 40px 0px;}.tatsu-BkvsGSpQ3.tatsu-inline-text{margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;}<\/style><div class=\"tatsu-inline-text-inner tatsu-align-center\">\n<p><span class=\"swatch-white\">It happened on April 23, 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where more than four million garment workers were employed.&nbsp;Rana Plaza housed garment factories for various major Western clothing brands such as Mango, Benetton, Walmart, Auchan, C&amp;A or Carrefour. After the discovery of deep cracks in the building&#8217;s walls, the stores and bank on the lower floors were immediately closed, while the fashion workers were forced to return to the factories on the upper floors. The next morning, the power failed, prompting the rooftop diesel generators to come on line. This failure was in fact a sign that the building, built on unsuitable land and to which additional floors had been added illegally, was in the process of collapsing.&nbsp;  In just 90 seconds, the entire building collapsed, killing at least 1,134 people and injuring more than 2,500.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">An Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh was put in place in the wake of this dramatic event in May 2013. The agreement included an extensive inspection program, corrective action plans, a commitment by the brands to provide sufficient funds to remedy the situation, and the establishment of a complaints mechanism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"swatch-white\">Ten long years have already passed, and despite some efforts, the factors that caused the collapse of Rana Plaza are still at the root of the global fashion industry: low prices, low wages, factories working in overcapacity to meet urgent orders, the suppression of trade unions&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-normal-button tatsu-button-wrap   tatsu-H1L27kol2   \"><a class=\"tatsu-shortcode mediumbtn tatsu-button left-icon circular   bg-animation-none  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.novethic.fr\/actualite\/social\/consommation\/isr-rse\/dix-apres-l-effondrement-du-rana-plaza-l-industrie-du-textile-et-les-consommateurs-ont-ils-change-151475.html?utm_source=Abonn%C3%A9s+Novethic&amp;utm_campaign=df0c05b97a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_24_05_57&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-df0c05b97a-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\" style=\"\" aria-label=\"Novethic (FR)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Novethic (FR)<\/a><style>.tatsu-H1L27kol2 .tatsu-button{background-color: rgba(230,255,0,1);color: rgba(0,0,0,1) ;border-width: 1px;border-color: rgba(0,0,0,1); 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But the unions say there is still much to be done to remedy the violations on which the industry is based.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/news-from-the-front\/ten-years-on-has-the-fashion-industry-learned-the-lessons-of-the-rana-plaza-tragedy\/\" class=\"exp-read-more exp-read-more-underlined\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14361,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions\/14361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}