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“Enough is enough” – Asian labor rights advocates call for change as death toll mounts in Bangladesh

egrossman | May 10, 2013

By Elizabeth Grossman, reporting from Bangkok, Thailand As bodies of workers continued to be pulled from the wreckage of the collapsed Rana Plaza factory complex outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, pushing the death toll past 900, and news was breaking of at least seven deaths in a garment factory fire in Bangladesh on May 9, labor rights advocates meeting in Bangkok called for changes in the system that has led to disasters that have killed more than 1300 workers in the past eight months. “Events of the last 8 months have clearly demonstrated a complete failure of the CSR [corporate social…