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what you were trying to say.

And Rana Square for me was like a horror story.

Two weeks after the disaster,

and the death toll amounts to the shocking figure of 931,

making it the worst disaster textile history.

I think one of the most deeply impressive things

Rana on disaster Square was the news

the workers had already pointed to the direction

cracks in the building.

They had already noted

that the building was structurally unsafe,

and yet they were forced to re-enter.

Many survivors wonder

how they could be forced to return to work

when management knew the cracks in the building,

and concerns of workers on the day of the collapse.

Many clothes in US stores is made in Bangladesh

by workers who earn about $ 2 a day.

Last month, a textile factory collapsed,

killing more than 1,000 people,

and a few months before, a fire in a factory left more than 100 dead.

And as bodies are recovered from the rubble,

another factory in Bangladesh this morning caught fire,

leaving eight dead.

Disaster stories in garment factories

They monopolized the news,

the fact is that now three of the four worst tragedies

in fashion history they had occurred in the past year.

While growing death toll amounted profits generated.

The following year disaster Rana Square,

It was the most profitable sector for all time.

The global fashion industry

It is now an annual industry nearly three trillion dollars.

Bangladesh is already the second largest

exporter of clothing after China.

How? Well, unlike some of its competitors,

Bangladeshi manufacturing is still very cheap,

and unions have limited power.

The country grabbed the lower end of the value chain.

1000 Those poor girls, were killed

because no one cared, no one will give a sh*t.

Just they wanted cheap price and good profit.

It should not be.

Everyone should take responsibility for these girls.

it's like that.

It could happen again.

Sorry, but it's not just the price pressure.

It is something ...

It is to ignore the lives of others.

It's not ... should not ... it's not right.

We are in the XXI century.

We live in a global world,

And just we ignore the lives of others?

How it is possible?

This huge and predatory industry

which it is generating many benefits

for a handful of people,

Why is unable

to support their million workers properly?

Why you are not able to ensure their safety?

We are talking about basic human rights.

Why is unable to ensure that

while it is generating these huge profits?

Is it because it does not work properly?

That is my question.

Lucy's question sounds like the most obvious.

But instead of answering, wherever I looked, I found people

constantly justify the cost

by economic benefits generated.

So this production of low wages, so-called "sweatshops"

is not only the least bad option for the workers,

It is part of a process that raises living standards

and leads to higher wages and better working conditions wages.

The immediate causes of development are physical capital, technology

and human capital and worker skills.

When they workshops to those countries,

the three elements bring these workers

and begin to put that process in motion.

Can sweatshops be really good?

Yes, those terrible, horrible workshops.

The very name "sweatshop"

conjures up horrific images of poor people and children,

suffering in Third World countries, enslaved in appalling conditions

making products for us, selfish Americans.

And thanks. Good!

Does it bother me that people are working in a factory,

making clothes for Americans,

or European?

Or they are ... What so spend their lives?

Is that what you're asking?

Yeah right.

No. I mean, they are doing work.

They could be doing much worse.

This is live television, and ask

defining the sweatshops.

We must be very clear

what we talked about at the beginning.

We're talking about places with poor working conditions

from the standpoint of normal Americans,

low wages for our level, places where children work,

that can violate the labor law of the country,

but there are key characteristics of the type,

of which I want to talk tonight, Kennedy,

And there are places where people choose to work,

certainly a number of other bad choices.

I mean, there is nothing inherently dangerous

in sewing clothes.

Then we started

with a relatively safe industry.

It's not like coal mining, mining or natural gas,

or a lot of things I could ... that are much more dangerous.

Work on these workshops seem horrible working conditions and salaries

for anyone in the West who have enough money

to have a TV and watch your video.

But we must remember that the alternatives available

for these workers are not our alternatives.

They are much worse than our alternatives,

and they are usually much worse

who work in its factory worker.

Low wages, unsafe conditions and disasters in factories

They are justified by the need to create jobs

for people without alternatives.

This story has become the narrative,

used to explain how the fashion industry now

Worldwide.

But there are those who believe

there must be a better way

to manufacture and sell clothing

generating economic growth,

but causing havoc.

So I do not know yet

how long has this embroidery.

Do you think you can ask about Santo ...?

How long has that whole panel?

I guess because it was then seen in the breakdown of press FAB,

but it will be great to know, right?

Safia Minney am. I am the founder and CEO of People Tree,

and People Tree is a fashion brand of fair trade,

It began over 20 years ago in Japan.

We worried that we had too navy.

How about now?

Because we put more black in PV14

and it worked very, very well

in collaboration with Orla design.

Do we have enough prints in black in the collection?

Well, we've lost that abstract print dust, east of here,

in black, but I think this pink, really ...

It is one of those prints

I worry a bit but all work well.

I think most fashion brands

They start with a concept of a collection or style.

Not often think:

"Who is going to make the product?

And I can make sure how manufacturers,

or suppliers are going to eat? "

So what we try to do in People Tree

it really started with the capabilities we have

in each group of manufacturers, and then design the collection,

while we look at the integrity of the collection

in aesthetics.

Originally I worked with independent designers

and I went to Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, India, Nepal, Philippines,

and gradually we put together an incredible network

of FTOs minded

for the development of women,

social development for workers and the environment

They are absolutely essential in everything we do.

TOKYO, JAPAN

One two three.

Happy World Fair Trade Day!

Today is the 15th anniversary

World Fair Trade.

We organize this type of event

in over 60 countries

as Fair Trade movement,

and 10 to 60 organizations

by country participate in it.

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