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ten years after the Bangladesh factory collapse, we are no closer to fixing modern slavery

  • Written by: Muhammad Azizul Islam, Chair in Accountancy and Professor in Sustainability Accounting and Transparency, University of Aberdeen

It’s ten years since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed at least 1,132 garment workers and injured several thousand more. The collapse of the eight-storey building on April 24 2013, which housed five factories making clothes for western high street brands like Accessorize, Primark and Walmart,...

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