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Wasfia Nazreen (Bengali: ওয়াসফিয়া নাজরীন) is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, environmentalist, [1] social worker and writer. [2]Nazreen is the first Bengali and Bangladeshi to scale K2, the world's second highest and most dangerous peak [3] [4] becoming one of the 40 women in history since 1954 to have successfully scaled K2.
The status of women in Bangladesh has been subject to many important changes over the past few centuries. Bangladeshi women have made significant progress since the country's independence in 1971, where women in the region experienced increased political empowerment for women, better job prospects, increased opportunities of education and the ...
Syeda Rizwana Hasan was born on 15 January 1968, into a Bengali Muslim Zamindar family called Narapati Haveli in Habiganj District, Bangladesh (previously East Pakistan).She studied in Viqarunnisa Noon School and College for her secondary education and Holy Cross College for her higher secondary education, before attending the University of Dhaka for her bachelor's and master's degree in law.
Feminism in Bangladesh seeks equal rights of women in Bangladesh through social and political change. Article 28 of Bangladesh constitution states that "Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life". [1] Sculpture of Begum Rokeya at Burdhwan House, Bangla Academy. She was a pioneer of women's liberation ...
Since the 1970s Rohingya refugees have been coming to Bangladesh from Myanmar. In the 1990s, more than 250,000 resided in refugees camps in Bangladesh. In the early 2000s, all but 20,000 of them were repatriated to Myanmar, some against their will. [27] This respite ended in 2015 and by 2017, an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 Rohingya refugees ...
The culture of Bangladesh is intertwined with the culture of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. It has evolved over the centuries and encompasses the cultural diversity of several social groups of Bangladesh. The Bengal Renaissance of the 18th early 19th centuries, noted Bengali writers, saints, authors, scientists, researchers ...
Tashnuva Anan Shishir is a Bangladeshi transgender rights activist, model, actress and news anchor who became Bangladesh 's first openly transgender news anchor on March 8, 2021. [1][2][3] Shishir is set to appear in two feature films this year, Anonno Mamun's "Koshai", where she plays a detective, and "Goal" directed by Syed Shahriar.
Biggest festival of Bengalis, Pohela Boishakh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.