- April 24 marks four years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. More than 1,000 workers died. For the multinationals, they sewed clothes in harsh working conditions. The World March calls for an act of denunciation.
On April 24, at 12:00 pm, the World March of Women in Bilbao called for a meeting. The rally will take place in Moyua Square, and it is no coincidence that they have called for a meeting next to the large clothing chain H&M. This multinational, along with others, has textile companies in poor countries and workers work in harsh working conditions.
On 24 April 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza building sank in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. 1,127 workers, mostly women, died trapped underneath the buildings. More than 2,500 were injured.
Journalist Olivier Cyran, who had visited these places a few weeks before the disaster, was investigating for Le Monde Diplomatique a similar disaster that occurred five months earlier, on November 24, 2012. Cyran wrote the report “Au Bangladesh, les meurtriers du prêt-à-porter” (Bangladesh, the killers of fashion clothes) to explain why this will happen again and Pello Zubiriak in LAR (“Massacre of cheap clothes in Bangladesh”, 16.06.2013) received the story of the journalist Cyran.