Nothing has stopped Shirin Begum from going to work every day at a garment factory for more than 10 years – but last month’s deadly attack by Islamic militants in the capital, Dhaka, could change that, the BBC has reported. She walked to work in Dhaka even during Bangladesh’s never-ending general strikes, political violence and labour unrest. But now she fears her livelihood is in danger because of the recent jihadist violence, according to the report. “What will happen to us if the buyers are not going to come to Bangladesh?” it quoted Shirin, a mother-of-two who works as a seamstress at a factory just outside Dhaka that stitches clothes for many Western retail brands, as saying. She is one of the four million workers in the industry, which is the world’s second largest exporter of ready-made garments, next only to China, said the report.
