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ACTIVISTS HAVE URGED rapper Sean ’Diddy’ Combs to push for better working conditions after revealing clothing for his fashion line was made in a Bangladeshi factory where 110 staff died in a fire.
Labour rights campaigners shot and distributed dozens of images of labelled clothes inside the gutted remains of the Tazreen Fashion factory, where the ferocious blaze took hold late on Saturday.
“We found clothing of ENYCE (Combs’s label) and Faded Glory (a Walmart range),” Kalpona Akter, director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, told AFP.
She said that clothes also made for German discount line KiK, US firm Dickies, True Desire of Sears, Edinburgh Woollen Mill and several other Western brands had been identified in the burnt-out ruins.
ENYCE and Combs, who was formerly known as Puff Daddy, were not immediately available for comment.
But Walmart, European chain C&A and Hong Kong supplier Li & Fung have been among companies confirming they had clothes made at the factory.
“We are sure that Mr. Combs will be as shocked as we are to find that his company is implicated in such an horrific tragedy,” said Liz Parker of the Clean Clothes Campaign, an Amsterdam-based textile rights group.
“We urge him to use his influence to make sure clothing factories are safe places for people to work.”
The fire at Tazreen Fashion brings the total of workers that have died in factory fires in Bangladesh since 2006 to around 700, according to the group.
Walmart on Monday acknowledged some of its products were made at the nine-storey plant, which only had planning permission for three storeys according to government inspectors.
“A supplier subcontracted work to this factory without authorisation and in direct violation of our policies,” Walmart said in a statement. “Today, we have terminated the relationship with that supplier.
“The fact that this occurred is extremely troubling to us.”
Witnesses of Saturday night’s blaze told how desperate workers, most of them women, cried for help and several leaped to their deaths from upper floors as they tried to escape.
German retailer KiK was also a major client of a factory in Pakistan where a fire killed 289 people in September this year. It has agreed to pay more than $1.2 million in compensation to victims.
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Attacker found,pleads for mercy siting drugs and bad upbringing judge smile and suspended sentence. Happy days! Meanwhile victim afraid to walk the streets again.
You’re spot on, poor girl out doing a hard days work and that scûm walking the streets, when is this government going to wake up and react to what is going on. Hopefully she makes a fully recovery.
You forgot free legal aid
Don’t forget she will already have over 100 convictions and will already be on a suspended sentence. Hope the victim recovers though I’d say psychologically that could take years.
Wish the judge would take that into consideration.
Attempted murder. Plain and simple. What other result could someone expect from stabbing another person in the neck. Filth.
WTF is the world coming to, hope she makes a full and speedy recovery
Forget the World what is happening in out own city
The world is long messed up
@John: This is par for the course now in Dublin. Constant intimidation of citizens by s cu m and feral youth as well as a total and complete lack of respect for the rule of law. The Gardai and government with the help of media do a hell of a PR and spin job but the reality is they have lost control of the city and other parts of the country. Everyone knows the do gooders are mostly unaffected by these toe rags as they sit behind their desks in leafy south Dublin gated communities preaching from a height. They’d be the first to shout “civil rights” if like in the good old days a Gardai would take these young thugs down an alley and beat the living c r ap out of them until they screamed for their mammy. Of course a lot of the Gardai these days would get blown over by a wet f art so not much use i suppose.
@John Henry:
Very well said, love the wet fart bit>
Hopefully the victim makes a full recovery & the mugger is caught.
Make a good example out of her & put her away for attempted murder.
A stabbing isn’t something that happens by mistake.
2 months ago 2 young lads attacked and held captive by a gang in park in drumcondra..i came on the scene as one of the young lads broke free…called santry station 3 times..guards never even bothered comeing down…….we need a new force..root and branch job
Tell them there’s a dead body tense, they wouldn’t be long leaving their tea and biscuits then!
@Labhrás Ó Fógartaigh: Never even bothered? Maybe they were inundated with other problems and understaffed or undersupplied with transport!
@ laborás ó fógartaigh why didn’t you call 999 as that is the emergency number, you don’t call a gardai station directly
Should not have to tell lies,they are supposed to be the protector of the people
@Labhrás Ó Fógartaigh: A few friends and I had the heads kicked off us in Santry Park before. Called the Guards. Waited 25 minutes, they never arrived. Has happened to other friends of mine too.
Our national police force is laughable and in my experience the only ones who disagree are those who haven’t been in a situation where they seriously need them.
@Carl Nolan: spot on carl
I’ll say it again Zero Tolerance needed. Three strikes and your out rule. The liberal softy approach in our legal system is not working
I wouldnt even give em 3 chances
I Prefer, Zero tolerance, 1 strike and you’re out
Three strikes refers to minor crimes. I’ll bet ya this woman has a string of previous convictions. She should not have been on the street in the first place. Someone needs to declare war against the thugs and corrupt legal system in this country
@John Reese: If we started with a low bar like 100 strikes we would have to build thousands of prison places, but it would be money well spent!
@John Reese: And has failed us for years. Open up massive camps (on islands if possible) and give the s c um hard labour breaking rocks if needs be under supervision from members of the armed services as well as private security firms. Facilities in these camps should be basic with no TV’s, playstations etc.. and food at the very minimum level required to keep a human alive. After a minimum of 5 years i can guarantee low level anti social criminal elements of our society would brush up their act pronto or risk being sent to these camps. I am a strong advocate of anything that makes life harder for these thugs and moves the ball back into the court of the law abiding tax payer. It’s time to take the gloves off and take back our nation.
I wish this poor lady the very best. What a traumatic, horrible event. I really hope it doesn’t leave any lasting effects, physically or mentally.
Nothing will happen to this filth back out on the street after a week or 2 . Liberal leftie BS has us in this mess. Boo hoo poor slanders never had a chance. Well they have a choice. Not to stab people who pay their dole in the neck
@Phil Keenan: Do you know the mugger personally Phil? What is her signing day? This mugger needs to be caught and put away but to say she is on the dole without evidence tries to paint everyone on social as been a criminal.
Well would you say she is working and doing the odd mugging as a hobbie??? Not saying everyone on social is a mugger, nuts it’s too easy for those who do this to get their hands on it
Oh yes, the mugger was probably on her way home from work at the ifsc or somewhere.
@Phil Keenan: Which ‘Liberal leftie BS’ political party has been in power here ?
I wasn’t talking about a party. It’s our social fabric which goes easy on these headers. I have no faith in any party. All our politicians talk sh.. and have no idea how to handle the state of our country. There’s a hidden bunch of public servants guiding these idiots and don’t tell me you know who they are. If we were not a liberal go soft society then why do we have massaged crime figures and guys with wrap sheets in their hundreds walking around the place. I’m pi..ed off paying for it are you not? I’m sure the stabbed girl would agree
The people of Dublin would want to decide either through public forum or consequently at the ballot box what kind of society they want . Streets riddled With CCTV is not to my liking but if this poor victim were akn to me, I’d be all for it. Has always seemed to me , the crims of Dublin city can carry out whatever crime they like and will not get caught or know they’ll walk . Shut this savagery down
This happens all over the country not just in Dublin, many many attacks go unreported in smaller towns / villages/ county’s
A coincidence that it happened a couple of doors up from a halfway house for young offenders, a couple of guests from this fine establishment having broke into a hairdressers in Drumcondra a number of weeks ago…..
It happened around 5.15 or so. I passed by, fire brigade there, at 5.35. Somebody must have seen or heard something
Probably a junkie that has had a hard life and will tell a sob story to the dinosaur of a judge and he will give it a suspended sentence!!! NO matter what she could have killed that woman and carrying a knife is with the intention of murder END OF!!! Total s- combag…
A description of the perp might be useful.
I lived down the road from the picture shown, Drumcondra and Dorset street has gotten dangerous. Which is wrong as the people of both areas are good people. Drugs are rampant, that a fact. I lived there long enough to see the changes.
Forget the blame game, as plenty here love to play.
Lock them up, they say! that costs. Others say…..Hug them poor darlings, that costs! and makes no real difference.
Neither works. The war on drugs, according to the police services worldwide has failed. Management is the way forward.
It has been proven to work in many countries. Management of supply and usage and all the rest of it. As is, the product is more dangerous than it should be, the users are victims to all sorts of illness due to the conditions they use in. Plus the very real damage the do to the community.
Not in Ireland, some will scream. Tet getting pissed as a newt is OK to some.
Grow up and deal with the real issue and stop pointing fingers at people.
My idea is straight down the middle. Clear out the reason for the crime by proper management of drug use and nail anybody that breaks those rules and very hard.
Horrific.
Time for Irish women to reclaim the streets……..from ….Irish women.
If this gets to court judge might well give a suspended sentence ……Judge will say punishing her will do no good and take into account genuine remorse and sddiction issues…..Even if it’s 10th conviction
In terms of finding witnesses, would it not help to give the exact location where it happened, or the route the woman walked? Drumcondra is a big place.
@Lurfic: The Archbishop’s Palace area in Drumcondra where the attack took place.
Blame the POLITICIANS.
Blame the judges there are plenty of laws there for them to uphold
It won’t be long until the people decide to take the law into there own hands. If there is no justice served by legal means, what hope do we have?
That’s awful whats Dublin becoming. . poor lady
Too right, stabbing someone in the neck is attemptive murder
Terrible what’s Dublin coming to poor lady
Nothing to do with ‘leftie’ or ‘rightie’ it’s down to Drugs.
Eliminate the need for Heroin and other needle drugs and crime would drop.
Ah yes, if you all could stop taking drugs now, thanks, problem solved
@Imnotrodten: I say make high quality heroin free for addicts. Extremely potent, as much as they want.
The toe rag who did this will more then likely get bail instead of prison. Some filthbags in this country alright.
If the mugger’s caught, she’ll plead guilty to “grievous bodily harm” and get 5 years with 3 suspended. Then she’ll get released early for good behaviour. Max 1 year is my guess.
Wait a minute the not catch the mugger yet ?
No space in jail=no time in jail. That’s why to judges are so lenient.
The Gardai will have some clues to track down this attacker, previous form, etc., so let’s hope they can take her off the streets, & that bail terms if allowed are tough.
The best support & sympathy for the injured person is for the law to protect her & others in the future.
I honestly don’t know what to say..
@ molly coddled you don’t have to say anything but you did and it was pointless!
@James Stallone: ..I did call 999 James 3 times and it was them that connected me to santry station
She better hurry up and get pregnant. You wouldn’t send her to jail now!
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