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Child labour in the textile and apparel industries-

At 12 years old, Bithi was sent by her family to work in a garment factory. She is one of the millions of children toiling away in the $284-billion global textile and apparel sector.

The needle hums, fingers fly and piles of cloth are stitched together at record speed.

“60 pockets an hour,” the 15-year-old behind the sewing machine explains.

Squished inside a second story room with 20 other Bangladeshi women, the girl hunches over her machine while fluorescent lights beam hard overhead.

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