Tazreen fire
Don’t normalise risky living
Dhaka’s unsafe buildings pose too great a risk to be left unaddressed
When justice becomes a cruel joke
Stop treating human lives so callously
10 YRS SINCE TAZREEN FIRE / Renewed calls for major brands to sign Accord
Clean Clothes Campaign, the world’s largest alliance of garment industry labour unions, piled pressure on the major brands connected to the Tazreen factory fire to sign the International Accord, which protects workers in Bangladesh.
Tazreen Fire: A decade without justice
For 10 long years, the state has failed the victims of Tazreen and their families.
6 Yrs of Tazreen Fire: Survivors pin hope on own factory
Six years after the Tazreen Fashions factory fire, 10 workers injured in the incident have taken their destiny in their own hands and set up their factory in Ashulia.
Tazreen Fire: 5 years on, the pain lingers
Shobita Rani has been unemployed most of the last five years despite being hired a couple of times by garment factories in Savar.
Making strides in workers' rights
On November 24, 2012 a fire broke out in Tazreen Fashions garment factory in Ashulia that led to the death of at least 112 workers trapped in a building without adequate emergency exits.
Tazreen Fashions disaster / Trial begins finally
A Dhaka court yesterday finally started trial against 13 people in the case filed in connection with the devastating fire at Tazreen Fashions that killed 112 workers in Ashulia in 2012.
Editorial / No compensation yet for Tazreen victims
It has been three years since the Tazreen fire incident which left some 112 dead and hundreds more injured due to smoke inhalation and fire.
Mourning the violence of capital(ism)
ON March 21, 2014, I received the news that Sumaya Khatun, my friend and comrade, a 16-year-old girl who used to work at Tazreen Garments, passed away after battling a cancerous tumour for over a year.