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World Service,28 Aug 2017,15 mins

I Stopped Sewing and Started Striking

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Kalpona Akter travels the world trying to get consumers to think about where their clothes come from. As a child she worked in a textile factory in Bangladesh, and was so shocked by the conditions that she's put her life on the line to change things.

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