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24 Apr 2018

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Clean Clothes Campaign

Five years on, Clean Clothes Campaign commemorates Rana Plaza workers and calls for a recommitment for meaningful change in the garment industry

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This day has become a harrowing symbol of workplace deaths in the garment industry in general....Clean Clothes Campaign urges the government of Bangladesh, with the support of the ILO and brands sourcing from Bangladesh, to fulfill the pledge for meaningful change that followed the Rana Plaza disaster by taking immediate action to establish a national employment injury insurance system according to international standards in Bangladesh. While delivering such a scheme under national legislation will take time, in the immediate interim the Bangladesh government must implement a bridging solution to cover those affected by factory incidents, which have occurred in the last five years since the Rana Plaza disaster....Most importantly, new factory tragedies need to be prevented. We would like to reiterate that there is only one credible way for garment brands to ensure that the workers in their supply chain can work in safe factories: by signing the 2018 Transition Accord. Clean Clothes Campaign urges all apparel and home textile companies sourcing from Bangladesh to join the ranks of the Accord and to leave behind non-binding alternatives without worker participation. We call upon those brands that already signed the 2018 Accord, to extend its protection to more workers in their supply chain, by adding their factories for home textile and knit and fabric accessories to the monitoring activities of the Accord.

 

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