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

A signboard outside the factory reads “Rana Plaza” as it collapses on 24 April 2013 (© Khorshed Alam Rinku)

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 (© 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 (© 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 (© 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 (© Indraji Ghosh)

A portrait of a Rana Plaza victim injured Mili Khatun, now she works at another garment factory at Savar © Khorshed Alam Rin (© Khorshed Alam Rin)

Garment worker Laboni, stands with her husband, she lost her left hand at Rana Plaza collapse © Khorshed Alam Rinku (© 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 (© 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 (© 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 (© Khorshed Alam Rinku)

Protesters at the Rana Plaza site hold up pictures of victims of the disaster © Khorshed Alam Rinku (© Khorshed Alam Rinku)

Pakhi and Lovely, two wounded Rana Plaza workers, take launch at a private hospital in Savar © NashirulIslam (© NashirulIslam)

Garment worker Shahinur lost her right leg at the Rana Plaza tragedy at Savar near Dhaka © NashirulIslam (© NashirulIslam)

Arotee, garment worker, lost her leg at Rana Plaza collapse on 24 April 2013, now she has an artificial leg © Nashirul Islam (© 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 (© 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 (© Palash Khan)

Many of brand tags left abandoned at the site of collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, Dhaka © Rashed Shumon (© Rashed Shumon)

People hold photos to know the whereabouts of their missing relatives working at the Rana Plaza apparel factories © Rohat Ali Rajib (© 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 (© 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 (© 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 (© Suvra Kanti Das)