Irish group seeks fair deal for workers in Bangladesh

Some 85% of the 1,125 souls who died in the recent garment factory fires at the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh were young women who were under the age of 35.

And many of these victims were originally from a rural background, women and girls who had joined the mass migration to cities in a desperate attempt to escape rural poverty.

But what they found instead were long hours, garment factory salaries of $38 (€29.50) a month, life-threatening working conditions and squalid, overpriced accommodation This minimum wage does not cover even one third of the income needed to sustain lives.