A GROUP of young Christians in Southampton will be stripping off in the city centre today in an ethical clothing protest.
The representatives from the Speak organisation will be taking off garments as part of a campaign against working conditions in clothing factories abroad which export to high street stores in the UK.
They will be petitioning outside WestQuay Shopping Centre from 10am before asking stores in the city to sign up to the Ethical Trading Initiative to meet internationally recognised labour standards.
Speak member Angela Munn said: "We want to make sure the way we live does not make anyone else suffer. We can buy fairly traded tea, coffee, sugar etc quite easily. But as for clothes, it is just too difficult to know for sure that they are made ethically."
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