Being concerned over growing incidents of sexual abuse, a coalition of six human rights (HR) organisations on Saturday placed a three-point demand, including formulation of a law, to prevent sexual harassment of women in the workplace.
At a press conference at Jatiya Press Club in the capital, the coalition called Gender Platform also demanded immediate implementation of a High Court directive to form a sexual harassment prevention committee at the workplaces until the law is formulated and the ILO convention 190 ratified.
Professor Ainun Nahar, coordinator of the platform, said incidents of sexual abuse of woman at workplaces have taken an increasing trend horribly in the recent time.
Citing statistics disclosed by the home minister at Parliament, she said a total of 17,300 incidents of rape took place in the country from 2014 to 2017 but only 673 criminals were punished.
The platform then made the three aforesaid demands to prevent sexual harassment of woman at workplace and other places.
Advocate Fouzia Karim, executive director of Bangladesh National Woman Lawyers Association (BNWLA), ZM Kamrul Anam, secretary general of Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF), Nazma Akhter, executive director of Awaj Foundation, Sanjida Sultana, director of Kormojibi Nari, and Nazma Yesmin, director of Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS), among others, were present at the press briefing.
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