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Rights Group Says Firms Aren’t Complying With Bangladesh Safety Plan

Dozens of global clothing companies are not complying with a plan to ensure better safety in Bangladesh garment factories following the deadly collapse of a building four years ago, a rights group said Monday. Only 29 out of 72 recently …

Inspections on Track for 1,500 Bangladesh Factories

About 1,500 factories in Bangladesh are on track to be inspected by the end of August as part of a five-year safety pact signed by more than 150 clothing brands and 20 countries, according to organizers of the pact. In …

Bangladesh Workers Demand Safety as Toll Tops 400

Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safer working conditions and the death penalty for the owner of a building housing garment factories that collapsed last week in the country’s worst industrial disaster, killing at …