To avoid a tragedy like the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh (which claimed 1,100 victims in April 2013) from happening again, binding European rules are needed to make the industry more responsible, MEPs from the European Parliament's development committee said in Brussels on Tuesday 21 March.
They thus called on the European Commission to propose rules, at EU level, to force all actors in the textile and garment supply chain to respect labour law and the human...