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Twelve years ago today the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing at least 1,138 people in a preventable disaster. Today, the global Clean Clothes Campaign network reaffirms its solidarity with all those affected by this horrific tragedy and states its commitment to continue fight the root causes of the collapse, including unsafe factories, poverty wages, corporate negligence, and union busting.
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A coalition of seven NGOs today lodged a formal complaint with the European Ombudsman, condemning the undemocratic, untransparent and rushed way in which the European Commission has developed the Omnibus proposal.
Thursday, 24th April, marks twelve years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. At least 1138 people died, the large majority of them garment workers in one of the five factories that the building housed. Although fashion brands professed in 2013 that this disaster would be a catalyst for change in their supply chains, actual progress has been limited to issues regulated by binding agreements. Clean Clothes Campaign calls upon brands to stop making and breaking meaningless promises and commit to binding obligations.
On 2 April, the Trump administration announced hefty trade tariffs to be imposed on countries around the world. The high percentages imposed on US imports from garment producing countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Lesotho, and Vietnam mean that garment production will be heavily affected by these measures. The Clean Clothes Campaign network calls upon US and global garment companies to ensure that the costs for these new policies are not offloaded on those that can least afford it, the workers, and instead to absorb costs themselves rather than pushing them down the supply chain.
