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Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz discusses the Center for Business and Human Rights' research on worker safety in Bangladesh

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Excerpt from Women's Wear Daily -- "'In my view, this is an opportunity for leaders within BGMEA and Bangladesh to look more broadly at the problem and think about how to solve it. The global brands also have a responsibility. I think they have also made this more difficult by making it clear that subcontracting is not a problem or that they have got it under control. They should also acknowledge that they have benefited enormously from the lack of oversight and the artificially low cost from subcontracting, because it doesn’t require compliance,' [Labowitz] observed."

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