Demand for monitoring cell to protect child domestic helps

Speakers at an opinion exchange meeting on Sunday demanded formulation of law and monitoring cell to protect child abuse while working as domestic help.
They said though the government has approved domestic workers protection and welfare policy, formation of monitoring cell as well as enactment of related law as guided in it is not yet done to protect children from abuse and torture.
Issues of children working as domestic helps were also not addressed properly in the policy, the speakers observed.
Shapla Nir and Bangladesh Nari Sangbadik Kendra jointly organised the meeting at National Press Club to press for demands in taking necessary steps in implementing the domestic workers protection and welfare policy approved in 2015.
BNSK President Nasimun Ara Huq presided over the meeting where journalist Rita Bhoumik presented the keynote paper. Among others Mina Shamsunnahar and Masuda Parveen from Shapla Nir and Akter Jahan Malik and Munima Sultana from BNSK spoke on the occasion.

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