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'We will mourn the dead and struggle for the survivors'
24 April 2018
Five years after Rana Plaza Tragedy, there is a lot left to do.
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Five years on from Rana Plaza: ‘Increase national capacity instead of foreign dependency’
23 April 2018
Trade union leaders and workers rights groups called to make the RMG safety progress a sustainable one by increasing national capacity instead of foreign dependency. They also demanded introduction of injury insurance scheme for workers to ensure proper compensation in case of industrial accidents.
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The Real cost of Cheap Shirts
21 April 2018
Factory workers in Bangladesh toil for low wages and under precarious conditions to make clothing worn worldwide.
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All Talk and No Action?
20 April 2018
Five years ago, over 1,100 garment workers lost their lives and hundreds became permanently disabled. How much has really changed at an institutional level? On the fifth anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, we turn the spotlight on the state—how much of its professed commitments to protect our workers has it kept?
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This is the world's cheapest place to scrap ships' - but in Chittagong, it's people who pay the price.
02 December 2017
Thousands of workers have been killed or maimed dismantling the world’s ships in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
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Towards better, improved employment-related social security in Indonesia
08 September 2017
Building greater trust among relevant stakeholders, optimizing benefits adequacy, re-profiling members of social security for workers as well as synchronizing existing regulations were the four recommendations from the joint evaluation seminar conducted by the ILO and the Ministry of Manpower in Jakarta on 7 September.
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XXI World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
Global action needed to tackle rising work-related injuries and diseases, ILO says
07 September 2017
Work-related fatal injuries and diseases have increased from 2.3 million to 2.78 million per year according to new data issued at the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work held in Singapore. ILO launched a call for concerted global action to address new and emerging occupational safety and health challenges.