# Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz discusses the progress on human rights in the three years since the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh

Faculty News

— April 24, 2016

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Excerpt from [The Times of London](http://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/style/rising-from-the-rubble-6z537hndj) -- "'The pessimistic view of Rana Plaza is that little has changed. The optimistic view is that Bangladesh is a turning point for the low-end garment industry,' says [Labowitz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/sarah-labowitz). 'Certainly, there is a change of consciousness in fashion. The question is, how do you impose rules on a system that has been without rules?'"

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