{"id":134296,"date":"2025-11-29T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=134296"},"modified":"2025-11-29T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T16:58:42","slug":"its-been-12-years-since-rana-plaza-why-is-amazon-still-refusing-to-protect-bangladeshi-garment-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/its-been-12-years-since-rana-plaza-why-is-amazon-still-refusing-to-protect-bangladeshi-garment-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been 12 years since Rana Plaza. Why is Amazon still refusing to protect Bangladeshi garment workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<p>Akter draws a direct line from Amazon&#8217;s pursuit of profit and speed to the lethal pressures on suppliers, echoing the ignored warnings that preceded Rana Plaza. Announcing solidarity with the global &#8220;Make Amazon Pay&#8221; day of action, she outlines concrete demands: that Amazon sign the Accord, ensure living wages, publish its supplier list, respect union rights, and enforce protections against gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.international\/wire\/2025-11-27-its-been-12-years-since-rana-plaza-why-is-amazon-still-refusing-to-protect-bangladeshi-garment-workers\/en\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at Progressive International<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akter draws a direct line from Amazon&#8217;s pursuit of profit and speed to the lethal pressures on suppliers, echoing the ignored warnings that preceded Rana Plaza. Announcing solidarity with the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":134300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,60,55,5,1738],"tags":[1463,1626,984,1865,777],"class_list":["post-134296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-civil-society","category-industry","category-news","category-work","tag-amazon","tag-bangladesh","tag-fast-fashion","tag-female-labour-participation","tag-workers-rights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}