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The Rana Plaza collapse (also referred to as the Savar building collapse or the collapse of Rana Plaza) was a structural failure that occurred on 24 April 2013 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka District, Bangladesh, where an eight-storey commercial building called Rana Plaza collapsed.
Apr 23, 2020 · The collapse killed a total of 1,134 people and injured more than 2,500, most of whom were women and children. Many of the survivors, who had been trapped under tons of rubble and...
Apr 24, 2023 · CNN — Trade union leader Babul Akhter was working at Bangladesh’s labor ministry in Dhaka on the morning that Rana Plaza, a nine-story building crammed with garment factories, collapsed. He...
Apr 10, 2014 · On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building, Rana Plaza, collapsed just outside Dhaka. The building contained five clothing factories: most of the people in the building at the...
Apr 20, 2021 · In April of 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapsed, killing 1,132 people and maiming more than 2,500 others. This tragedy became a symbol of the fashion industry’s impact and need for sustainable reform.
Wednesday marks the 11th anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, which left over 1,100 people dead in the deadliest garment factory disaster in history. It was the morning of April 24, 2013. Workers came to Rana Plaza to work like every...
Apr 17, 2024 · 24 April 2024 will mark the 11th anniversary of the fashion industry’s worst tragedy: the collapse of the Rana Plaza building, killing 1,138 people. The catastrophic death and injury toll was caused by a deadly mix of fashion brands ignoring dangerous factory conditions, poverty wages, and centrally, constraints on workers’ ability to ...
The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh was the worst ever industrial incident to hit the garment industry. It was followed by a struggle for justice for the Rana Plaza workers and safe factories for all.
Apr 26, 2013 · Many people remain trapped in the remnants of the multistory Rana Plaza — home to several garment factories — after the building collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, killing over...
Apr 20, 2023 · The Rana Plaza factory collapse occurred as the result of systemic neglect of workers and the prioritization of profit over the lives of the people making our clothes. Since 2013, over 122,000 safety violations were identified in Accord factories, with over 90 percent of those remedied.
