1127 dead factory workers in Bangladesh

I am reading and typing this from the newspaper.

USA Today newspaper (Friday April 17th, 2013) had the story of this Bangladeshi woman Ranjana who was found sobbing near the rubble of the Rana Plaza factory where her daughter Sheuli Akhter, 20, worked. She's hoping her daughter had somehow survived.



Western retailers like Sears, JCPenny, Walmart, Target and others outsource their production to third world countries like Bangladesh where workers work under inhumane condition. The average worker earns 24 cents an hour.

Sixty million people in Bangladesh are classified as very poor and per capita annual income is about $1700. (Here's per capita income for other countries, so you can imagine how poor the Bangladeshi are).

Sheuli made about $140 per month, enough to maintain her family and kept her brother, 14, in school. Sheuli's father died four years ago.

Another girl, Asma said, "The garment factory owners sell the products abroad at a high price, but we get low wages."

"We must stop the killing," said Nazmar Akter, general-secretary of the Awaj foundation of workers group. "It's a global business. Everybody has the responsibility. Workers in Bangladesh are unsafe, hungry, with bad living and working conditions. We are humans. we want respect and dignity; that's our demand." Akter say.