Rana Plaza exposed the grim realities of the global fashion industry in all their horrific glory: the poverty pay that meant garment workers, the vast majority of them young women, were unable to say no to entering a cracked and dangerous building on 24th April 2013 for fear of losing essential wages; the exploitation at the core of an industry worth almost $3 trillion annually; and the near total lack of transparency that meant our colleagues spent days, weeks and months digging through rubble and dead bodies to find the labels of the clothes being made in Rana Plaza, simply so we could identify which brands were actually sourcing there. Read more here