# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kalpona-akter
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:37:19.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kalpona-akter"
name: "Kalpona Akter"
slug: "kalpona-akter"
description: "Kalpona Akter is a Bangladeshi labour activist. 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."
tagline: "Bangladeshi labour activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kalpona_Akter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.32
  momentum:             6.413043478260867
  historical:           5.071346666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpona_Akter"
    title: "Kalpona Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpona_Akter"
    title: "Kalpona Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "কল্পনা আখতার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpona_Akter"
    title: "Kalpona Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpona_Akter"
    title: "Kalpona Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpona_Akter"
    title: "Kalpona Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44479949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump