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Sumi Abedin

A survivor of the factory fire in Bangladesh that killed at least 112 garment workers last November. She is touring the U.S. to talk about unsafe working conditions in Bangladesh and to demand that workers be compensated. Abedin worked as a seamstress at the Tazreen factory. During the fire, she jumped from the factory’s third story, breaking both her arm and foot in the process.

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