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Witness: Rana Plaza Factory Collapse Still Plagues Survivors  © 2015 Human Rights Watch Roksana and Beauty lingered outside that fateful morning two years ago – neither wanted to go inside to start turning out jeans and shirts in the factories housed in Rana Plaza the day after they had been evacuated because of cracks in the building. But their line managers pushed and cajoled until both women went to their stations at two of the five ready-made garment businesses inside. “I was scared,” Beauty recalled in a video interview with Human Rights Watch in Dhaka. “I didn’t feel like going inside, my heart was pounding.” She said she couldn’t work properly that morning because she was crying, prompting verbal abuse from a manager. On another floor, Roksana was anxious, unable to settle down to her work, but “our tasks kept piling up. The bosses said they wouldn’t let us leave until we had finished the task, and said we wouldn’t get the day’s salary plus the two hours of overtime if we left without finishing the order. We get a pretty small salary. We can’t risk losing even a tiny part of it.” But on that day, April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story building in Savar, a suburb of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring 2,000 more.  Read more » share on:

Central African Republic: Muslims Held Captive, Raped At least 42 Muslim Peuhl herders, mostly women and girls, are being held captive by anti-balaka fighters in the Central African Republic and are at risk of sexual violence.  See the Latest News in Africa »  share on:

Will Europe Make Migrant Crisis Worse? By Bill Frelick  CNN "Tragic developments" was the apt description by the European Commission of what may prove to be the largest maritime disaster the Mediterranean has seen. But while European officials have been quick with sympathetic words following the capsizing on Saturday of a ship that may have claimed some 800 lives – it has been much too slow in addressing the entirely predictable surge in boat departures that formed the backdrop to this tragedy.  See the Latest News in Europe/Central Asia >>  share on:

In Yemen, Warehouse Strike Threatens Aid Delivery  An airstrike by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition that destroyed a humanitarian aid warehouse in northern Yemen on Saturday was an apparent violation of the laws of war. The attack in Saada killed at least one unidentified man outside at the facility of the international aid organization Oxfam, which had provided the building’s coordinates to the coalition to keep it from being targeted.  See the Latest News in the Middle East/North Africa »  share on:

Dispatches: A Step for Equal Justice for California’s Immigrants By Grace Meng  In California, if you are arrested for a minor drug offense and successfully complete a program under “deferred entry of judgment,” you can avoid jail time and even a criminal record – unless you are an immigrant. That unequal treatment – which has led to deportations and split families – may finally be set to end.  See the Latest News in the United States >>  share on:

VIDEO     Executive Director Kenneth Roth on how the EU can prevent migrant deaths at sea.  Watch Now » PUBLICATION     Mind the Gap: The Lack of Accountability for Killer Robots  Download Now » TWEET of the WEEK #Azerbaijan is playing games with Europe; #EU should call a timeout. My piece @POLITICOEurope http://bit.ly/1Dm3JJi  Follow Giorgi Gogia »

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