Fire in the Tazreen clothing factory
The fire in the Tazreen clothing factory occurred on November 24, 2012 in a suburb of the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka .
The fire was the worst in a textile factory in Bangladesh to date . At least 117 people were killed and more than 200 people injured. The factory, which was part of the Tuba Group , produced clothing for C&A , Walmart and Li & Fung, among others .
Reactions
Prime Minister Hasina Wajed expressed dismay at the accident and proclaimed a day of national mourning; she suspected the fire was an act of sabotage. Thousands of workers demonstrated in Bangladesh, erected barriers and thus prevented an orderly further production.
Walmart ended the collaboration with Tazreen as a result.
On May 13, 2013, Uwe Kekeritz , Member of the Green Party, filed a complaint against the textile companies KiK , C&A and Karl Rieker ( Karl Rieker GmbH & Co. KG ) at the national contact point of the OECD in Berlin. He considers the German companies to be partly responsible for the death of the seamstresses.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Farid Ahmed: At least 117 killed in fire at Bangladeshi clothing factory . CNN on November 25, 2012, accessed April 24, 2018.
- ↑ David Bergman, Muktadir Rashid: Bangladesh factory fire kills 111 garment workers The Telegraph, November 25, 2012, accessed April 24, 2018.
- ↑ Kamrul Hasan Khan: Garment factory blaze kills 109 in Bangladesh ( Memento November 25, 2012 on WebCite ) Jakarta Globe November 25, 2012, accessed April 24, 2018.
- ↑ Julfikar Ali Manik, Jim Yardley: Garment Workers Stage Angry Protest After Bangladesh Fire The New York Times, November 26, 2012, accessed April 24, 2018.
- ↑ Wal-Mart terminates business with Tuba ( Memento from November 28, 2012 on WebCite )
- ^ Nils Klawitter: Fire in textile factory: Grüner complains to the OECD about Kik and C&A. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
- ↑ medico international: OECD complaint filed against KIK, C&A and Karl Rieker because of the fire in a supplier factory in Bangladesh - medico international. (No longer available online.) In: www.medico.de. Archived from the original on July 31, 2016 ; accessed on April 24, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
