Rights groups on Saturday submitted a complaint to Business Social Compliance Initiative about an audit report on a Rana Plaza apparel factory carried out by a German certification company saying that the company did not address building safety or construction defects. The European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, FEMNET, Campaign for Clean Clothes, Medico International and Activist Anthropologist Collective in Bangladesh jointly filed the complaint. The complaint said that German technical inspection company TUV Rheinland audited Phantom Apparel Ltd housed in Rana Plaza just a few months before the building collapsed but the company failed to acknowledge the shortcomings. The organizations called on Business Social Compliance Initiative to disclose the audit contract as well as the reports on Rana Plaza by TUV Rheinland and others and to renovate the approach of inspection reports. In a release, the head of the Business and Human Rights programme at ECCHR Miriam Saage-Maab said that ‘The certificates don’t tell us much. Consumers need to know exactly what is monitored.’
