European Parliament hosts an exhibition to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Dhaka

 

Iwona Karbowska
Friday 24 April 2015 16:59 BST
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A signboard outside the factory reads “Rana Plaza” as it collapses on 24 April 2013
A signboard outside the factory reads “Rana Plaza” as it collapses on 24 April 2013

It's been two years since the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where over 1100 people died and more than 2500 were injured. There remains $6million USD gap in the funding needed to compensate each of the over 5,000 individuals with eligible claims.

To mark the anniversary, in the European Parliament Jean Lambert has hosted an exhibition that showcases reportage images taken at the site of the collapse as well as follow-up portraits of survivors.

In addition, Jean chaired a conference that brought together the EU Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström, with experts and campaigners on the global fashion supply chain industry. Both events are to emphasise the need for the fashion industry to take more responsibility for the safety and working conditions of those that supply them.

The Rana Plaza site turns into a marshy land as debris of the collapsed factories are removed. It is alleged that the eight-storey factory building was erected on a marshy land without following the building code of the country, which is largely blamed for the disaster © Md Nashirul Islam
Rescuers from Bangladesh Army with the help of volunteers carry an injured worker to an ambulance to shift her to a hospital © Abdullah Apu
A top view of the wrecked Rana Plaza building that housed several apparel factories producing clothes for US and European brands on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka. The deadly factory collapse left over 1,100 workers killed and many more wounded © Farid Ahmed
Authorities arrange the burial of many workers in a Dhaka graveyard as their identities could not be known to hand over the bodies © Indraji Ghosh
A portrait of a Rana Plaza victim injured Mili Khatun, now she works at another garment factory at Savar © Khorshed Alam Rin
Garment worker Laboni, stands with her husband, she lost her left hand at Rana Plaza collapse © Khorshed Alam Rinku
A portrait of a Rana Plaza victim injured Shirin Akhter, now she works at another garment factory at Savar © Khorshed Alam Rinku
A women looks at the photos of missing Rana Plaza victims pasted up on the wall of Adhar Chandra High School in Savar © Khorshed Alam Rinku
The ID card of a worker and a pair of scissors left abandoned in the site of the collapsed factory building in Savar © Khorshed Alam Rinku
Protesters at the Rana Plaza site hold up pictures of victims of the disaster © Khorshed Alam Rinku
Pakhi and Lovely, two wounded Rana Plaza workers, take launch at a private hospital in Savar © NashirulIslam
Garment worker Shahinur lost her right leg at the Rana Plaza tragedy at Savar near Dhaka © NashirulIslam
Arotee, garment worker, lost her leg at Rana Plaza collapse on 24 April 2013, now she has an artificial leg © Nashirul Islam
Hundreds of onlookers gather and stand watching the rescue operation as rescuers pull out bodies and wounded workers of the collapsed factory building in Savar, Dhaka © Nazrul Islam Khan
People in search of their missing relatives gather around the bodies kept in a long passage in a school building near the collapsed Rana Plaza in Savar as the rescuers were facing difficulties in managing so many dead bodies © Palash Khan
Many of brand tags left abandoned at the site of collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, Dhaka © Rashed Shumon
People hold photos to know the whereabouts of their missing relatives working at the Rana Plaza apparel factories © Rohat Ali Rajib
A voluntary rescuer cuts iron rods with a hacksaw to rescue a worker trapped beneath debris of collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka in April 2013 © Sanaul Haq
Rescuers pull out wounded workers of the wrecked eight-storey factory building that caves in on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka on 24 April 2013 © Monirul Alam
Rain washes out the photograph of Asma Akhter, a missing Rana Plaza garment worker, pasted up on the wall of Adhar Chandra High School in Savar, where the authorities open a makeshift camp to record the names of missing workers © Suvra Kanti Das

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