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2020年9月11日

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Clean Clothes Campaign

Pakistan: Fight for justice continues eight years on from garment factory fire linked to social auditing flaws

“Families affected by Ali Enterprises factory fire still have not seen full justice”, 10 September 2020

Eight years since a fire in a Pakistani garment factory killed over 250 workers, their families are still fighting for recognition and justice from the companies responsible…

On 11 September 2012, when a fire broke out in the Ali Enterprises factory in Karachi, many workers had no chance of escaping … A correct implementation of Pakistani and international safety regulations could have saved many lives. However, neither the factory owners nor the main client, German retailer KiK, had an incentive to improve the factory safety as the factory was certified as safe according to the Social Accountability International SA8000 standard by Italian auditing company RINA...

The prevailing social auditing system, with RINA as its executor, failed to protect the workers of this specific factory in Karachi, as it has failed so many workers in factories before and since…

In 2018, families affected by the Ali Enterprises factory fire, together with a coalition of Pakistani and European trade unions and NGOs, filed a complaint against RINA to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) National Contact Point (NCP) at the Ministry for Economic Development in Rome…

… An attempt to hold [the factory’s main buyer, German discount retailer KiK] legally accountable in German court however failed, as has an attempt to hold RINA accountable in Italian court…