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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11777

29 April 2017
EXTERNAL ACTION / Development
European Parliament calls on Commission to legislate against exploitation of textile workers
Brussels, 28/04/2017 (Agence Europe)

The European Parliament is calling for European legislation to force suppliers of garments and textiles imported to the EU to respect their workers' rights.  This, according to the Parliament, is the best way for the EU to help prevent disasters that exact a heavy toll on human life from being repeated in non-EU developing countries, as was the case with the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh in 2013.

The Parliament said this on Thursday 27 April in a non-legislative...

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