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Angry workers rally

May 02, 2013 12:00 am • Last Updated: May 01, 2013 11:56 pm

Women shout slogans calling for better working conditions for garment workers during a May Day rally Wednesday in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of garment factory workers paraded through the streets calling for safeguards to be put in place and for the owner of a building that collapsed last week in Bangladesh to be sentenced to death.

Women shout slogans calling for better working conditions for garment workers during a May Day rally Wednesday in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of garment factory workers paraded through the streets calling for safeguards to be put in place and for the owner of a building that collapsed last week in Bangladesh to be sentenced to death.

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