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'You people are like flies, we can just blow you away'

Sexual harassment and abuse is a sad reality for many women who work and live in the shrimp farming regions of south western Bangladesh. As rising demand for tropical shrimp from the US and Europe led to big companies taking over local agricultural land, local men were forced to leave to find other work, leaving local women extremely vulnerable. The problem was especially bad in the 1990's and early 2000's but it persists to this day. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation has documented the abuse and received this testimony from a woman who lives in the region.

(Picture: Bangladeshi woman walking down the street, Credit: Getty Images)

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