To draw attention to a global campaign demanding long term compensation to the families affected by the Ali Enterprises factory fire in 2012. Shahida Parveen and Farhat Fatima from Pakistan will visit KiK in Berlin from November 23 to 27 2015. During her stay in Germany, Parveen intends to deliver #MakeKikPay petition to KiK representatives. Parveen is a widow of one of the workers who was killed in the fire. Fatima, from the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) will accompany Parveen. PILER is an organisation that signed a legal agreement with KiK for a negotiated settlement of long-term compensation to the survivors and victims’ families of Ali enterprises tragedy.

A fire broke out in the garment factory Ali Enterprises in Karachi, Pakistan on September 11 2012 in which around 254 workers were killed and many more injured as doors were locked, escape routes were blocked and windows were barred.

The Ali Enterprises factory was solely producing jeans for German low-cost retailer KiK when tragedy struck. In December 2012, KiK signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PILER after the disaster. However, KiK is yet to fulfil the terms of the legal agreement, notably to engage in good faith negotiations to determine long-term compensation for the victims and to pay $ 250,000 for future labour standard enforcement more than three years after the incident.

The families of those who were killed or injured in the fire have been negatively impacted with many struggling to make ends meet. Several international groups and labour unions, including the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), and global unions IndustriALL and UNI, have supported Parveen’s global petition.