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NEWS CENTER – On the second anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, in which 1,100 mostly women workers lost their lives, families and survivors gathered at the site of the fallen factory to remember their dead.

The orphans of the mostly female workers were among those who gathered at the site of the factory collapse in a suburb of Dhaka today, bearing signs listing the names of the dead. An announcement by Bangladesh officials yesterday that 135 victims' DNA has still not been identified only renewed the perception that the wounds of the massacre are far from healed.

ActionAid Bangladesh's latest research shows that 61% of the workers have ongoing physical health problems, while 59% struggle with depression and trauma, according to the Dhaka Tribune. 55% of the survivors are unable to find work due to the combination of high unemployment and the perception among local employers that they are physically and psychologically unfit. Major corporations have refused to pay into the fund set up for reparations for the survivors, whose economic and psychological problems continue.

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