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...