As Seen In The Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator: How Helpful Are Standards and Certifications? (Part I of III)

The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza should have never happened, and it’s even more appalling that the workers themselves pointed out issues beforehand and were forced to go back to work or be fired. Photos from Rana Plaza continue to haunt us all, and just last month we saw a continuation of worker deaths from fires in Bangladesh. How can something like this happen in our modern world with so many technological advancements, where extreme poverty has been halved over the past 20 years and education has dramatically improved?

There are a multitude of reasons why the death and destruction at Rana Plaza should have never happened....READ FULL ARTICLE HERE.