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Leaving home to become a domestic worker

For women migrants from Bangladesh, education and technical skills can be real game changers.

By Cameron Thibos and Sarowat Binte Islam
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Yanur Begum, a female worker in the Wool Tex Sweaters Limited in Shewrapara, Dhaka. Asian Development Bank/Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Sarowat: I'm Sarowat Binte Islam and I work with for the Manusher Jonno Foundation, a national NGO in Bangladesh. We work on human rights, and workers’ rights is one of our components. We also work on migrant workers' rights issues.

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