Protection demanded for domestic helps
Women leaders and professionals yesterday demanded immediate enactment of a specific law to ensure security, dignity and rights of domestic helps.
They also urged the government to ratify and implement the convention, "Decent Work for Domestic Workers”, adopted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The speakers also called for bringing necessary amendments to the existing laws and their proper implementation to stop women's repression.
Karmojibi Nari, a platform for working women, brought up the demands at a human chain in front of the capital's Jatiya Press Club marking the Resistance Day Against Repression of Women in memory of Yeasmin killing, says a press release.
Yeasmin Akhter, a 14-year-old domestic help of Golapbagh area of Dinajpur town, was gang-raped and killed by policemen in Dinajpur on August 24, 1995.
Rokeya Rafiq, executive director of Karmojibi Nari, said domestic helps had been being victims of repression, even murder, as there was no specific law to protect them. So a specific law should be passed to ensure security, dignity and rights of the workers.
Convener of Jatiya Nari Jote Afroza Haque Rina urged the government to formulate a comprehensive family law to ensure security of women.
She also demanded stop to all communal and fundamentalist activities going against women empowerment.
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