Rafiqul Islam (activist)
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Rafiqul Islam (activist)
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Rafiqul Islam was a Bangladeshi-born Canadian language activist. He played a major role in achieving recognition of February 21 as the International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1999. He was awarded Independence Day Award posthumously by the Government of Bangladesh in 2016. He was a member of Vancouver-based organization The Mother Language Lovers Of The World which was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2001 for the same cause.
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Bangladeshi-born Canadian language activist
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2023-08-06T09:38:12Z
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