Workers carry piles of bricks weighing more than 20 kg on their heads in a kiln in Dhaka, Bangladesh on February 15, 2024. The labourers “who are paid less than £1 a shift” move up to 2,500 bricks a day in sweltering conditions. Around 4,00,000 low-income migrants arrive in Dhaka from different parts of the country every year to work at brickfields. Long working hours under the scorching sun in the brick fields, massive accumulation of dust, the risk of falling from the trucks and piles of bricks, and carrying excessive loads pose serious health hazards for the workers. (Photo by Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Chillis are dried in the sun in the Chandrapur district of Bangladesh in the second decade of February 2024. If there is a good yield of chillis, they are dried in the fields as well as on the roads or backyards nearby. You can get a yield of up to 2 tonnes per hectare. A mound of dry chilli is sold for between, 4,300 and 4,500 taka (€30 – €32.50) in different local markets of the country. (Photo by Istiyak Ahamed Srabon/Solent News)





A worker removes labels from used plastic bottles as he works in a plastic bottle recycling factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 20, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)





Farmers form a star by linking boats full of waterlilies. The pink waterlilies were harvested at the Salta wetlands, near Barisal, Bangladesh in the second decade of February 2024. (Photo by Bipul Ahmed/Solent News)





Bangladeshi volunteers and children place flowers to decorate the Central Shaheed Minar monument during Language Martyrs' Day and International Mother Language Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 February 2024. On 21 February every year, Bangladesh celebrates State Language Day or Language Martyrs' Day, which commemorates the Bengali Language Movement demonstrations in 1952. (Photo by Monirul Alam/EPA/EFE)





Bangladeshi labourers carry a log of wood after unloading it from a cargo boat near the Buriganga river in Dhaka on February 27, 2024. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)





Workers painstakingly lay red chilli peppers out to dry in the sun in Bogura, Bangladesh in the last decade of February 2024, in preparation for being sold at markets around the country. (Photo by Anindita Roy/Solent News)





Locals help firefighters to contain a fire that broke out at a commercial complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, February 29, 2024. Bangladesh's health minister says a fire in a six-story commercial complex in the nation's capital, Dhaka, has killed several people and injured dozens of others. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo)





Fishermen are surrounded by green water as they use large nets to catch fish. The workers were pictured trying to find fish below the algae in Rajshahi, Bangladesh in the last decade of February 2024. (Photo by Bipul Ahmed/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Fishermen are surrounded by green water as they use large nets to catch fish. The workers were pictured trying to find fish below the algae in Rajshahi, Bangladesh in the last decade of February 2024. (Photo by Bipul Ahmed/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Fishermen are surrounded by green water as they use large nets to catch fish. The workers were pictured trying to find fish below the algae in Rajshahi, Bangladesh in the last decade of February 2024. (Photo by Bipul Ahmed/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Activists and garment workers shout slogans as they take part in a protest marking International Women’s Day in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 8, 2024. (Photo by MD Mehedi Hasan/Zuma Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A muslim prepares iftar before breaking the fast during the first day of Ramadan in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)





Vehicles jam on a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 20, 2024. Lack of skilled drivers and traffic police, a faulty traffic signal systems and the huge amount of vehicles are regarded the main reason for traffic congestion which create daily sufferings for commuters. (Photo by Habibur Rahman/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Men attempt to douse a fire which engulfed a slum dwelling on March 24, 2024 in the Banani neighbourhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo by Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)





Two young people paint each other's faces with a mixture of colored powders to celebrate the Dol Purnima festival know as Holi Festival at Sakhari Bazar on March 26, 2024 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo by Nahid Hasan/Eyepix Group/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Bangladeshi labourers pull a cart carrying a ferry propeller in a dockyard in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)





The red chillies are drying in the sun on the banks of river Yamuna in North Bengal, Bangladesh in the last decade of March 2024. (Photo by Abdul Hamid/Solent News)





Watermelon farmers offload the fruits of their labour from their boats ready for sale at local markets in Sadarghat, the major river port in Dhaka, Bangladesh early April 2024. (Photo by Rayhan Ahmed/Solent News)





Bangladeshi laborers unload watermelons from a boat at the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 03 April 2024. Watermelon is in harvesting season and is filling the city markets as it arrives from the southern part of Bangladesh. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Barishal has set an ambitious goal to expand watermelon cultivation to 54,002 hectares across six high-yielding districts in the division, which is 14 percent higher than last year. (Photo by Monirul Alam/EPA/EFE)