Bangladeshi Garment Manufacturers make US $20 billion annually yet pay as little as
21 cents an hour to their impoverished workers who live & work in conditions not suitable
for animals. This is  not an overstatement. See for yourselves. Weeks have passed since the tragic 25th November fire in a readymade garment factory near Dhaka yet nobody has been found, fined or fired for being negligent towards their responsiblity. Apart from lip-service it's business as usual for the powers that are!

Picturres & some text from www.shahidulnews.com



Charred worker at Tazreen Fashion garment factory. Savar. Dhaka. Bangladesh. 25th November 2012. Abir Abdullah (picture above)

         
I didn’t know her name or didn’t have time to wait for the relatives to identity her so that I could get her name. But she may be a mother , may be a wife or daughter and to me a human being. Her body was laid down on the floor of a under-constructed mosque. Some army soldiers cordoned her body along with some others. It was difficult for me to take the photograph, disfigured still beautiful, with a small ornament visible on her destroyed nose. I felt sad to take the photo at the same time I felt grief and anger inside me to show the gruesome portrait to understand and make the world realize, how much importance they get when dead but nothing when alive.

Najma Akhter, 23, a garment worker , is sleeping with entire family – her children, her parents and her siblings. Altogether, 11 family members share this one room. Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Related link: Fire in Tazreen Fashions Ltd.