'Domestic helps most deprived among workers'
Nagorik Udyog, a rights organisation, stages demonstration in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the city yesterday demanding a policy and its implementation to stop repression of the domestic helps.Photo: STAR
Domestic helps are the most deprived section among working class people and a policy should soon be finalised to protect them, said speakers at a meeting yesterday. Domestic Workers Rights Network organised the meeting at Jaitya Press Club in the city on the eve of May Day. The meeting aimed at stopping humiliation of domestic helps and to raise support for approval of Domestic Workers Protection and Welfare Policy 2010. Speakers also discussed on International Labour Organisation convention titled “Decent Work for Domestic Workers” to be held in Geneva, Switzerland in the coming June. They urged representatives attending the convention to play an active role considering the situation faced by domestic helps in the country and preservation of their rights. Jatiya Sramik League President Abdul Matin Master presided over the meeting. Dr Wajedul Islam Khan, coordinator of Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad; Zafrul Hasan, general secretary of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal; Shirin Akhter, president of Karmojibi Nari; and Abdul Kader Hawlader, president of Jatiya Sramik Jote, Bangladesh; also spoke.
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