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- Ethical garment factory becomes the first Passive House building in South Asia Wed, 3 Oct 18, 2:30amPassive House certification — one of the leading green standards for ultra-low energy architecture — has finally touched down in South Asia with the completion of the Star Innovation Center near Colombo, Sri Lanka...
- Rana Plaza Activists Remind New York Fashion Week Attendees About the Cost of Fashion Sun, 9 Feb 14, 6:00amLast year's horrifying Rana Plaza factory building collapse claimed over a thousand lives and left hundreds injured. Despite global outrage, only a third of the companies that used the Dhaka manufacturing facility have offered...
- Fashion Companies Refuse To Compensate Victims Of Bangladesh Factory Collapse Sun, 13 Oct 13, 6:30amThe mainstream media may have forgotten about the Rana Plaza disaster, which killed 1,127, and injured or maimed scores of others, but those working for workers rights have not...
- Bad Buildings Kill – Rana Plaza and the Case For Stringent Building Practices Wed, 8 May 13, 2:15amPhoto by Andrew Biraj for Reuters We've been closely following the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, where over 700 people have lost their lives when an eight-story garment factory collapsed on April 24th...
- How to Buy Clothes that Don’t Harm Third World Workers Mon, 29 Apr 13, 12:01amLast week's collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh has shone a bright light on working conditions that we have known for years are not sustainable...
- Pakistani Garment-Factory Fire Likened to Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fires–Leaves 300 Dead Sun, 16 Sep 12, 12:30amNearly 300 Pakistani garment workers are dead after a boiler-related explosion triggered a fire last Wednesday. Few options of escape were available to the trapped workers: every exit except one was locked and most windows...