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Research by Sarah Labowitz & Dorothée Baumann-Pauly of Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights on worker safety in Bangladesh

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Excerpt from Quartz -- "Fixing these problems is an enormously complex undertaking, but it’s a necessary one. Bangladesh’s garment industry has helped millions to escape poverty, and it’s not for the best if brands pull out of the country. The best solution, Labowitz and Baumann-Pauly write, is 'shared responsibility,' in which all parties acknowledge the scope of the problem, allow space for honest discussion, and act together to fix it."

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