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Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz on the ongoing safety risks in Bangladesh factories

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "'We have young people losing their lives sewing clothes,' she said at a forum at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she presented her report, co-authored with the center’s research director Dorothée Baumann-Pauly. Since last July, Labowitz and her colleagues have interviewed more than 100 people about business practices in the supply chain, including factory owners, buyers, agents, workers, trade unionists, journalists, bankers and finance professionals and academics in Bangladesh and in the U.S."

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