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Kalpona Akter was born on 1976 in Chandpur. Discover Kalpona Akter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?
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Union organizer |
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47 years old |
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1976, 1976 |
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1976 |
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Chandpur |
| Nationality |
Bangladesh |
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Kalpona Akter Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Kalpona Akter Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Kalpona Akter worth at the age of 47 years old? Kalpona Akter’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from Bangladesh. We have estimated
Kalpona Akter's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Akter was awarded Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism in 2016.
During a 2015 lecture tour in the US, Akter was detained together with other protesters as they were trying to deliver a protest letter to The Children's Place headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey. She was released after two hours. The charges of trespassing were later dropped.
In 2010, Akter was charged with inciting a riot and conspiring to set off an explosive device after garment workers had vandalised several factories, even though she had been thirty-five kilometres away from the events. She temporarily went into hiding, but was eventually found and arrested by police. Other trade union leaders including Montu Ghosh of the Bangladesh Garment Workers Trade Union Centre and Babul Akhter were also arrested around that time, provoking international condemnation. Akter and Akhter were released on bail after thirty days in jail. The charges were dismissed after the US government had suspended its trade privileges with Bangladesh following the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013.
In August 2000, Akter founded the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity together with Babul Akhter and Nazma Sheikh. The new organisation was not a union, but an NGO promoting union rights. In 2003, she also helped to found the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation.
Akter was fired from her job in 1995. Together with BIGUF, she fought the termination, but lost the court case. She also divorced her husband. Due to being blacklisted, she was fired from two more garment factory jobs. She then worked at BIGUF as full-time union organizer from 1997 until 1999, when she quit after becoming frustrated with the BIGUF's focus on garment workers.
Akter's family moved from Chandpur to Dhaka around 1982, where her father worked as general contractor. In 1988, her father suffered two strokes that left him partially paralysed. Akter, aged 12, left school and started work in a garment factory to support her family. In 1991 or 1992, she met her future husband at her workplace. They married in 1993.
Kalpona Akter (born 1976 in Chandpur, Bangladesh) is a labour activist from Bangladesh. She is the founder and executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity and was awarded Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges award for Extraordinary Activism in 2016.
