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Zarif holds the mask and sits patiently for around ten minutes for the liquid asthma medicine to convert into a breathable mist.
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A ready-made garment worker, Rekha was informed that some of her colleagues had been fired from the factory in Tejgaon without any prior notice. They were asked to leave without salaries.
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Ayena was trying to be as quick as possible, adding woodchips to the flame under a clay cooking stove by a roadside in the capital's Rampura. A crowd of half a dozen people was waiting for her to deliver the pithas (a kind of cake).
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Social challenges have held back women's economic participation over the last decade, despite headway made in education, training, entrepreneurship, and jobs overseas.
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Garment worker Mira breathed a sigh of relief when she learnt last November that she would no longer have to bear her healthcare bills.
