Political parties urged to vow to ensure women's rights
Female workers of ready-made garment industries staged a human chain yesterday urging the political parties to vow to ensure their rights.
The workers participated in the programme at Muktangan in the city.
The speakers at the human chain said around 20 lakh women are working in this potential sector which earns 76 percent of the country's total foreign currencies.
To ensure the rights of female workers, they placed a set of demands including ensuring their equal rights, security at workplaces, four-months' maternity leave with wage, providing day-care centre for their children, stopping labour after 8:00pm and providing transport facility for them.
Central leaders of the federation Shahida Sarker, Amirul Haque Amin, Nurun Nahar, Md Faruk Khan, Kamrun Nahar, Arifa Akhter and Md Anwar Parvez spoke at the programme.
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