Rana Plaza: The Moral Economy of Catastrophe and Who Collected Its Dividends

Rana Plaza: The Moral Economy of Catastrophe and Who Collected Its Dividends
Disaster of Accountability More than a decade after one of the garment industry's worst industrial disasters, questions of accountability have shifted from factory owners and brands to the institutions that managed the humanitarian response. AI-Generated / ChatGPT

Thirteen years after Rana Plaza killed more than a thousand garment workers in Savar, the disaster is still generating money. The question survivors are now asking is where it goes. Recently, the Rana Plaza Survivors Association turned its demands away from brands and factory owners and toward the institutions that built campaigns, funding streams and organisational visibility around their suffering—and that, in survivors' view, have not been required to account to them for how those funds were used.