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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Postcards from Bangladesh

Despite continued campaigns and intermittent outrage, a photographer has revealed both the shocking lack of safety controls inside some of Bangladesh's unregulated clothes factories as well as the grueling routines of the children that work there 
Despite continued campaigns and intermittent outrage, a photographer has revealed both the shocking lack of safety controls inside some of Bangladesh's unregulated clothes factories as well as the grueling routines of the children that work there 
It is thought there are about a million children aged 10 to 14 working as child labourers in Bangladesh, according to UNICEF - but the number is far higher when the age band is expanded 
It is thought there are about a million children aged 10 to 14 working as child labourers in Bangladesh, according to UNICEF - but the number is far higher when the age band is expanded 

Crammed into squalid factories to produce clothes for the West on just 20p a day, the children forced to work in horrific unregulated workshops of Bangladesh 

Daily Mail | 30 November 2015


  • Photographer Claudio Montesano Casillas went inside sweatshops in Keraniganj, Dhaka
  • Due to workload kids eat, shower and sleep inside the factories with just half a day off a week
  • Estimated 7,000 informal factories in Bangladesh are not subject to safety controls
  • Photographs show buildings without emergency exits, fire safety plans or extinguishers
  • Nearby Rana Plaza factory burned down in 2013 killing 1,100 people

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