Rana Plaza was a pretty typical commercial building in Bangladesh. At eight stories tall, it housed five garment factories near the capital city of Dhaka. And in April 2013, it collapsed in a matter ...

More than a decade after the collapse of Rana Plaza, a spate of recent tragedies and near-tragedies raises the question of whether Bangladesh can protect its workers.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Elizabeth Paton of The New York Times about the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, the deadliest accident in the history of... 10 years after the deadliest garment factory accident ...

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