Two years after the deaths of more than 1,100 workers in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, the compensation fund for their families and for the thousands injured is still US $6 million short of the $30 million target.
The ITUC and its regional organisation in the Americas, TUCA, have urged the president of Guatemala to extend the mandate of the UN International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
“Even conservative estimates put the annual occupational cancer toll at 660,000 deaths a year. A poisonous cocktail of toxic marketing and regulatory failure has already condemned another generation to an early grave.”
