The featured speakers will include:
Kalpona Akter
Kalpona Akter, a former child factory worker, from Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity which was established in 2000 by garment workers and other workers struggling for their rights. The Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity (BCWS) is a non-profit, non-political womens organization that works for the empowerment of working women, the rights of children, and the security of working families and communities. BCWS promotes workers negotiating power, gender equity, and social justice for the working class.
Zehra Bano
Zehra Bano is the General Secretary of the Home-Based Women Workers Federation of Pakistan and the Research and Education Secretary of the National Trade Union Federation. Zehra has been an outspoken leader in the fight for recognition of workers rights for women in Pakistan. She is in her mid-30s and has developed various training modules. Zehra has intimate knowledge of the plight of soccer ball workers especially related to home-based and stitching center workers.
