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Rana Plaza Building in Bangladesh: 1,130 women killed

  • The Women’s March of the Basque Country calls for mobilisation on Tuesday in the capitals of the Southern Basque Country on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the fall of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. The 1,130 women killed there were killed by capitalism.

24 April 2018 - 09:45
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The meeting will take place in Bilbao at 12:00 noon in Astarlo Street, at 18:00 in Loiola Street in San Sebastian, at 19:00 in Carlos III Street in Pamplona and at 19:30 in Foru Street in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

On 24 April 2013, the nine floors of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh were uprooted. More than 1,130 people were killed and more than 2,500 injured, most of them women workers from five textile companies based in the building and producing clothing for 30 brands.

 


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