Plot of Rana Plaza building now littered How we remind companies of their due diligence obligations On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh, collapsed. More than 1,100 people died and more than 2,500 were injured. For the first time, the world looked at the devastating conditions in the global fashion industry, but only for a moment. The grievances persist. How we make them visible and encourage companies to act. Since then, a lot has moved. The International Accord, for example, has demonstrably achieved improvements in the area of building safety. However, many companies have not yet signed the agreement. Other serious problems also persist: precarious wages, oppressed unions, gender-based violence. Many companies continue to fail to comply with their human rights due diligence obligations – they ignore maladministration and fail to take effective countermeasures. We continuously document cases of labour law and environmental violations – from wage robbery to contaminated drinking water near textile factories to Union Busting. The data comes from various sources, mainly from local news reports but also from trade unions, NGOs and local stakeholders. Companies are informed and asked to take concrete measures. It is therefore all the more important that these violations remain publicly visible. On the website textile-incidents.info The platform offers filtering functions, case analyses and an interactive world map on which the respective incidents are marked. In the individual case descriptions, it becomes transparent which companies are involved and - if known - how they react. textile-incidents.info is aimed at all: Activists, journalists, trade unions, the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) and the brands themselves. Our goal: Make grievances visible, name those responsible and initiate changes. back
