The Bangladesh government has adopted a two-pronged strategy to save its devastated textile industry. The first is renegotiation of trade deals and second is petitioning international rights groups like International Labor Organization, Human Rights Watch, and the Worker Rights Consortium, and European Union trade committee.

The Coronavirus lockdown has completely devastated the Bangladesh textile industry as many European companies have cancelled orders. As per a report by Nikkei Asian Review, Japan’s premier financial newspaper, UK’s Edinburgh Woolen Mills Group, whose key brands include Peacocks, Jaeger, Bonmarche, and Austin Reed, has cancelled orders worth more than 30 million from nearly three dozen Bangladeshi factories. BGMEA has threatened to blacklist the group.

As orders from European countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain- the major importers of Bangladeshi garments, get cancelled, more than 1,000 factories have been shut down and 3 million workers are out job, with their families facing poverty.