12 years on from Rana Plaza
What can we learn from this today? What can we do to stop workers and the earth paying for our fast fashion purchases?
This week marks 12 years on from when the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed, adding the names of 1,134 women and men who have been killed in fashion supply chains, to a list of many others who have suffered the same fate over the last decade. This tragedy was not the first and sadly not the last to suffer all in the name of fashion. Not only is fast fashion costing the earth in the over exploitation of finite resources, what Rana Plaza showed us, was it was exploiting those who make our clothes working in unsafe, dangerous conditions. While the tragedy focused the world's attention on working conditions in globalised supply chains, workers are still facing violations to their rights to a living wage, a safe working environment and reasonable working hours, on a daily basis.