Rana Plaza survivors challenge ILO and NGOs

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Rana Plaza survivors are challenging the ILO’s compensation fund – and demanding fashion NGOs stop fundraising in their name without consent

Rana Plaza survivors at the disaster site

DHAKA - After the Rana Plaza building collapsed in April 2013, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring thousands more in the world's worst garment industry disaster, the Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund was held up as a model of rapid, “innovative” redress.

Thirteen years on, a survivor‑led group is aiming to blow that legacy apart – accusing the Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO), which set up and ran the fund, of an illegal, opaque and discriminatory compensation process.

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