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Bangladesh Accord hands over 100 factories

The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (Accord) has handed over the safety activities of 80 more readymade garment (RMG) factories to the government’s Remediation Coordination Cell (RCC), taking the total number of factories transferred to 100. The agency announced this in a press release on 19th December 2018. Accordingly, a...

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Bangladesh Accord update: significant progress but still major life-threatening safety concerns

The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (Accord) has issued its quarterly progress report, finding that the overall remediation progress for the more than 1,600 factories covered by it stands at 80 percent. There is even 100 percent remediation from initial inspections at 120 factories and 90 percent or more at 665 factories. In...

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Bangladesh: latest factory fire underlines relevance of Accord/Alliance

A fire at a garment factory in Muktarpur, Munshiganj district, which borders the district of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, has claimed the lives of at least six workers and injured several others. The fire at Ideal Textile Mill - a factory neither covered by the Accord nor the Alliance - broke out on the fourth floor of the six-storey building at...