On April 24, 2013, the Savar building or Rana Plaza collapsed, killing 1,135 garment factory workers and injuring 2,515 in the process. (dazeddigital.com)
The collapse of an eight-storey factory building known as Rana Plaza was initially reported to have killed more than a hundred workers. (ipsnews.net)
Walmart, one of the largest retailers in the United States, denied a connection to Rana Plaza to IPS, but had been listed on the factory website, raising questions from activists. (ipsnews.net)
One year after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in a pile of concrete slabs and twisted metal, Bangladeshi seamstress Shefali says she would rather starve to death than return to factory work. (mbtmag.com)
According to Human Rights Watch, the international companies that sourced garments from five factories operating in the Rana Plaza building are not contributing enough to the trust fund set up to support survivors and the families of those who died. (mbtmag.com)
One year after Rana Plaza collapsed, far too many victims and their families are at serious risk of destitution," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at the organization. (mbtmag.com)
When the collapse occurred on April 24, 2013, thousands of Bangladeshis were toiling inside the Rana Plaza in Savar, the center of the country's $20 billion garment industry. (mbtmag.com)
On Monday, Bangladesh formally closed its rescue and search operations for bodies under the rubble of the Rana Plaza building that collapsed on April 24. (ibtimes.com.au)
Although none of the initial four companies that signed the agreement had clothes produced in the collapsed Rana Plaza factory building, all however faced intense pressure and scrutiny from consumers and stakeholders concerning the safety conditions of the factories where they source their products. (ibtimes.com.au)
On Monday evening, 19 days after it collapsed, authorities had called off retrieval and rescue operations and closed the rubber pile scene at Rana Plaza. (ibtimes.com.au)
On April 24, workers in Bangladesh and across the globe will gather to mark the anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse and mourn the loss of the more than 1,100 workers who were killed. (vdlc.ca)
Rana Plaza exposed the dire conditions for workers in these factories that produce the world's garments: poor wages, unsafe working conditions, precarious work, and intimidation and harassment in the workplace. (vdlc.ca)
But evidence is mounting that Benetton clothing was indeed being manufactured at the factory, known as Rana Plaza. (huffpost.com)
The day before Rana Plaza collapsed, large cracks appeared in the side of the building, prompting a bank and other retail stores on the first floor to close . (huffpost.com)
After a two-year campaign for compensation for the victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, the International Labour Organization has succeeded in securing $30 million in compensation. (feminist.org)
Bangladeshi officials have charged 41 people with murder for the April 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse that killed at least 1,127 workers, many of whom were young women. (feminist.org)
A Dhaka court has framed charges against 10 accused including Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana in a case filed over violation of Bangladesh National Building Code in the construction of Rana Plaza, which collapsed in 2013 and killed more than 1,100 people. (business-humanrights.org)
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WASHINGTON, May 3 2013 (IPS) - Worker advocacy groups here are calling on some of the most high-profile U.S.-based clothing companies to make drastic reforms to their international labour practices in the wake of the factory collapse that killed more than 420 workers in Dhaka last week. (ipsnews.net)
A shirt with a Benetton label lies in the rubble three days after a Bangladeshi garment eight-story building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 27, 2013. (huffpost.com)
Around 200 people have been found dead in the rubble after an eight-story building housing garment factories collapsed near the capital Dhaka. (democracynow.org)
Angry workers have blocked key highways today, marched on several factories, and rallied outside the headquarters of Bangladesh's main manufacturers group in Dhaka. (democracynow.org)
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And despite efforts by Western brands to improve safety at the Bangladeshi factories that produce their clothes, Shefali fears nothing good will trickle down the poorest of the poor. (mbtmag.com)
Police arrested two textile bosses over a Bangladeshi factory disaster as the death toll climbed to 332 and distraught relatives lashed out at rescuers trying to detect signs of life. (huffpost.com)
A recently completed inspection found more than 80,000 safety violations in Bangladeshi garment factories - where 85 percent of all workers are women. (feminist.org)
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Benetton, the Italian fashion line known for provocative marketing campaigns advocating progressive causes, has denied any ties to the garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, that collapsed last week, killing at least 377 people. (huffpost.com)
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According to the Independent , Rana is accused of ordering workers to continue their work despite receiving complaints that cracks were appearing in the walls the day before the collapse. (dazeddigital.com)
The clothing brands' insatiable hunger for lower prices and faster delivery by factories cultivates this deadly psychology in Bangladesh," the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent monitoring group, said in a statement. (ipsnews.net)
The plan carries no provisions about paying more to factories so they can abide by safety standards, for instance, and does not involve workers or unions in oversight and implementation. (ipsnews.net)
That means that factories receiving subcontracts are operating on razor-thin margins that leave concerns about safety and workers' rights perpetually unaddressed. (mbtmag.com)
Three weeks after and more than 1,000 lives lost, Bangladesh's more than three million garments workers scored a victory when major international clothing retailers such as Zara and H&M, among others, agreed to fund safety upgrades in the country's factories where they source their products. (ibtimes.com.au)
Compounding this immense tragedy, is the fact that workers had refused to enter the factory because cracks in the walls had been spotted the day before, but were ordered back to work to avoid costly production delays. (vdlc.ca)
Workers in garment factories like the one that collapsed last week make a minimum wage of 3,000 taka ($38) a month. (huffpost.com)
Thousands of workers have walked off the job in Bangladesh today as the death toll from a collapsed garment building continues to mount. (democracynow.org)
Yesterday the largest creator of imaginary scandals for republicans collapsed, killing 47 workers. (dailydiscord.com)
Citing meager wages, dangerous working conditions, and exploitative work practices, Miller called on the apparel industry to do more to improve working conditions and support the human rights of workers at garment factories in Bangladesh. (feminist.org)
We are faced with factories reduced to sieves, which barely keep their feet up, and workers who risk their lives every day. (luel.us)
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LAHORE, Nov 6 : Rescue crews continued digging through the rubble of a horrifying factory collapse in Sunder Estate, with the death toll standing at 31 on Friday. (observerbd.com)
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Between 500 and 1,000 of the 5,000 factories operated in Bangladesh will be covered under the agreement. (ibtimes.com.au)
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The GOP's long term goal is to pass the Affordable Scandal Act while simultaneously lowering the minimum wage so that scandal-creating factories can be successful built right here in the United States. (dailydiscord.com)
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The building itself was intended to house offices and shops but instead housed five garment factories, which supplied 29 clothing retailers including Benetton, Mango and Primark. (dazeddigital.com)
Labor rights activists digging through the debris have also said they found documents linking Benetton to the factory. (huffpost.com)
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Authorities have appointed more factory inspectors, plan to appoint more, and say they aim to ensure that no new factories are built without following proper safety regulations. (mbtmag.com)
Rescuers found Reshma Begum 17 days after the collapse, and authorities say her survival was miraculous. (mbtmag.com)
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According to the WRC, the agreement would obligate participating companies to "open the doors of their Bangladesh factories to independent inspection and … pay for a country-wide program of renovations and repairs to make these buildings safe. (ipsnews.net)
Cracks1
Cracks had been found in the building, but employees say the factory owners forced them to work anyway. (democracynow.org)
Initialize1
Initialize a factory with a single object, or a class with arguments applied to build of created instance. (rubydoc.info)
Retailers1
Its collapse put low-cost retailers like Primark under extreme scrutiny and caused people to weigh the true cost of their clothes. (dazeddigital.com)
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The union says the contract also saves jobs at a factory in Belvidere, Illinois, that Stellantis had planned to close. (ozarksfirst.com)
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Sign the International Accord, the continuation of the Bangladesh Accord on Building and Fire Safety, which brought massive success in health and safety inspections and repairs to thousands of factories. (vdlc.ca)
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And there are no guidelines that guarantee escape when the walls and the world come crashing down, as they did around Reshma when the garment factory where she worked collapsed . (time.com)
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Building model equivalences of Ruby objects Allows passing regular ruby objects to the factory to produce instructions that when evaluated produce the same thing. (rubydoc.info)
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Walmart also pointed IPS to a press release about the company's "strengthening" of fire safety regulations in January 2012 in its factories. (ipsnews.net)
Those regulations include "conducting regular fire drills, ensuring adequate number of exit routes and mandating fire safety training to all levels of factory management", which critics say underscore a weak and inadequate commitment. (ipsnews.net)
Essentially, they agreed to finance safety upgrades at apparel factories in Bangladesh. (ibtimes.com.au)
From industrial communications to robotics to meeting functional safety standards such as IEC 61508, our strong portfolio of embedded and analog products, system expertise and technical resources support you in engineering smart factory applications. (ti.com)
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But the garment factories in the floors above stayed open, and the building fell to pieces the next day. (huffpost.com)
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Sixteen-year-old Parul, hailing from Dhaka's Batara slum, is paid about 15 dollars a month for her work in a garment factory. (ipsnews.net)
According to a recent study by New York University's Stern School of Business, an "essential feature" of the sector involves factories subcontracting work to other workshops that have even worse conditions. (mbtmag.com)
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Returns the factory for the projected coordinate space, or nil if this factory does not support a projection. (rubydoc.info)
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As the week progressed and a major fire broke out, that figure quadrupled, setting off a public relations storm as human rights companies scrambled to identify the companies that sourced from the factory. (ipsnews.net)
U.S.-based companies The Children's Place and Cato Fashion have both been tracked as sourcing from the factory, but companies such as JCPenney, which sells European brands manufactured at the factory, are also under pressure from activist groups. (ipsnews.net)
Features1
This class implements the various factories for geography features. (rubydoc.info)
Build1
The deal includes a commitment by Stellantis to build a new midsize truck at its factory in Belvidere, Illinois, that was slated to be closed. (ozarksfirst.com)
Time1
It is time for the state to acquire the majority and start managing the steel plant with common sense, putting an end to a phase in the life of this factory to be archived. (luel.us)
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Investigators say a host of factors contributed to its collapse: It was overloaded with machines and generators, constructed on swampy land, and the owner added floors in violation of the original building plan. (mbtmag.com)
Your complete compendium of technical documentation on robotic system designs, focusing on collaborative robots (cobots) and factory robots. (ti.com)
Pressure1
But the union walked out Saturday night at a GM factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee, in an effort to increase pressure on the company to reach a deal. (ozarksfirst.com)
Module1
Geographic module for the API for creating geography factories. (rubydoc.info)
Industrial1
Looking at the spectrum of applications our company enables - from robotics to factory automation, grid, home automation and many other industrial systems - three consistent trends stand out. (ti.com)
True2
Returns true if this factory supports a projection. (rubydoc.info)
Returns true if this factory supports a projection and the projection wraps its x (easting) direction. (rubydoc.info)
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We die, we suffer, nobody takes care of us," Shefali said earlier this month as she toured the site of the collapse, now a barren, fenced-off expanse. (mbtmag.com)