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Italy’s Benetton pays USD1.1m to Rana Plaza disaster fund

Italian clothes group Benetton has paid USD1.1 million into a fund for victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse that killed 1,100 workers in Bangladesh two years ago, the company said on Friday, after pressure from activists to donate to the fund.

Benetton’s contribution comes after more than one million people signed a petition on campaigning site Avaaz calling for the Italian label to join other Western brands linked to the world’s deadliest clothing industry accident in donating.

"Benetton is not giving nearly enough to ease the death and suffering their clothes have caused," Avaaz Campaign Director Dalia Hashad said in a statement. However she added the payment set a precedent for other global brands: "when workers die, you cannot walk away."
 

(Source: CNBC)