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"Madam President, two years on from the Rana Plaza disaster, we should be congratulating all on the progress we have made to improve safety in the clothing industry, happy that victims have received compensation and safe in the knowledge that it will never happen again – but we are very far from this happy position.
We are still stuck with the crazy model of over-consumption, throwing away clothes once they are ʽlast seasonʼ, and they are all costing the lives of the poor and voiceless people who are making them. So it is essential to mark this second anniversary. We must continue to fight for the change Bangladeshi women so desperately need. But good progress is being made, public awareness about production methods is improving, and we now have the Sustainability Compact with the Bangladeshi Government, the EU and the ILO. But, this has not stopped other tragedies like the Tazreen factory fire. There is lots more to do to stop these wholly preventable tragedies.
Better legislation can protect. We know that – we did it in Europe in the last two centuries – so let us see that reform in Bangladesh. We need due diligence for garment companies that outsource production to third countries, with binding measures on traceability and transparency. It is not impossible and it is our responsibility to make sure that those vulnerable people get our protection because the clothes they make, make us feel good. They keep commerce moving and make huge profits for multinationals. All from the sweat of their own labour.
If the Bangladesh national laws supposed to protect and compensate the workers are not enforced, if the multinational companies are slow in implementing decent working conditions, then it has to be up to us, the regulators and the consumers, to take that action."@en1
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