# Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz comments on the progress companies have made in the human rights space since the collapse at Rana Plaza in 2013

1 Faculty News April 22, 2016 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](http://in.reuters.com/article/bangladesh-garments-lessons-analysis-idINKCN0XJ00V) -- "'You have about 200 brands working together, and there's definitely more transparency, more attention to the issue of human rights in the global supply chain,' [Sarah Labowitz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/sarah-labowitz), co-director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation."

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Additional coverage appeared on [NPR](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/24/475499651/3-years-later-bangladeshi-survivors-remember-the-collapse-of-rana-plaza) and [Refinery29](http://www.refinery29.com/2016/04/108937/rana-plaza-collapse-bangladesh-anniversary-photos#slide).