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Livia Firth and Monique Villa

Slavery in the supply chain: ‘Who is behind the clothes we wear?’

July 30, 2016Conflict

Opinion: Over the past decade, along with cheap clothes we have also been sold a myth: that buying a t-shirt at two dollars is a democratic right of our times.

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