Bangladesh safety accord covers 1/3 of garment factories [1]

Henna Begum holds a picture of her missing daughter, Akhi Akhter, who was a garment worker, following the April collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)

The international clothing retailers that vowed to improve working conditions after a deadly building collapse at one of the Bangladeshi garment factories that supply their clothes have released a list of nearly 1,600 factories that will be covered by the Accord on Fire and Building Safety they signed.

In the past month, Bangladeshi workers have protested [2] in the streets against the low wages paid to garment makers, currently paid about $38 US a month.