"The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating...

Trade and labour are connected in many ways. One aspect of their relationship revolves around the question whether products that are made in violation of labour rights, should be banned from the markets of importing States. In the negotiation process which led to the establishment of the World...