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Woman garment worker rescue beats odds in factory collapse Bangladesh

Rescued woman garment worker Dhaka

WNN Breaking (WNN/VOA) New Delhi, INDIA, SOUTH ASIA: In Bangladesh, rescue workers found a woman survivor Friday amid the rubble of a garment factory complex that collapsed more than two weeks ago. The death toll from the collapse has risen above 1,000, while a fire in another garment factory has left eight people dead. Bangladesh’s [...]

BANGLADESH: Corruption harms women garment workers in building collapse

Migrant women garment workers

WNN Breaking (WNN) Dhaka, BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA: In a city where work comes hard, the often grueling work of a woman garment workers, including migrant garment workers, in Dhaka can be filled with unseen danger. In the past 7 months the Tazreen Fashions building trapped mostly women textile workers as doors were locked shut killing [...]

Garment fire Bangladesh traps women in deadly crisis

Sewing machine in burned out building in Dhaka, Bangladesh

WNN Breaking (WNN/VOA) Dhaka, BANGLADESH: Fire officials say a lack of emergency exits contributed to the deaths of at least 110 people, when a fire swept through a garment factory in Bangladesh. Authorities said Sunday that the blaze broke out on the ground floor of a multi-story building the night before in a factory outside [...]

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