France, April 24 -- The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh a decade ago, in which more than a thousand people died, led to a revolutionary French law on duty of care. How did it come about and is it effective in protecting workers' rights and the environment?

On 24 April, 2013, the Rana Plaza clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed killing 1,134 people and injuring another 2,000.

Numerous warnings over the building's structural failures had been ignored.

The fact garment workers had been making clothes for companies sub-contracted by French and European brands caused outrage.

It led to the signing of the Bangladesh Accord, which defined safety norms in the country.

Here in France, a number of NGOs and l...