Some businesses have reopened, but mobile internet and social media sites are still blocked. Bangladesh has started to relax a curfew that it imposed after days of deadly clashes between student protesters demanding reforms to a job quota system and a combination of law enforcement officials and members and supporters of the governing party’s youth wing. The protests that started …
The binding agreement signed by clothing brands to prevent a similar disaster in Bangladesh will expire in May. Last month marked eight years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building, a nine-story complex housing various textile workshops in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The activist stated that since the Supreme Court decision phasing out the Safety Accord, “no brand …
Alnea Farahbella, left, and husband Arno Nabos, who own the small apparel factory Nana Atelier in Los Angeles, support SB 1399, a bill that would ban piece-rate compensation and make retailers jointly liable for any labor violations in the making of their clothes. But someone has to pay the real cost of those cheap clothes even if it’s not the …
