EUROPEAN COUNTRIES CALL ON RANA PLAZA COMPANIES TO PAY MORE COMPENSATION TO DISASTER VICTIMS
June 8th, 2014
Governments from European countries called on garment companies who sourced from Rana Plaza, Bangladesh, to fund compensation to victims of the building's collapse one year ago. The message came in a joint statement from the governments of France, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, and Spain, made by Lilianne Ploumen, Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation at an international Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) meeting yesterday (June 26) in Paris.She said: “We feel it's the joint responsibility ...
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