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16 days of Activism 2021(2nd December 2021)
On 2nd December 2021, the Secretariat of Gender Platform Bangladesh and its member organization Bangladesh...
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16 days of Activism 2021(1st December 2021)
On December 1, 2021, the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association-BNWLA, a member organization of Gender...
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16 days of Activism 2021(30th November 2021)
On 30th November 2021, Awaaz Foundation,member organization of Gender Platform Bangladesh, organized a Multistakeholder Seminar...
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International Women’s Violence Prevention Party 2021
On the morning of 25th November 2021, the International Women Violence Prevention Party-2021 got off...
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Gender-based harassment and violence: Prevention requires coordinated initiatives
Gender Platform Bangladesh in association with The Daily Star organised a roundtable titled ‘Gender-based harassment and violence: Prevention requires coordinated initiatives’ on December 29, 2021. Here we publish a summary of the discussion. Related News...
Read more....Separate law need of the hour: speakers
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday stressed the need for a comprehensive law to protect female workers from workplace harassment. They said achievement in this area will help reduce gender-based violence as a whole. Speakers urged the government to ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention-190 recognising the “right to a workplace free from gender-based violence...
Read more....Gender Platform Law Demands an End to Sexual Harassment at workplace
A conference has been held in Dhaka to demand the guidelines for the formulation and implementation of sexual harassment prevention and protection laws in all workplaces and educational institutions. The conference was attended by Advocate Salma Ali, President of the Bangladesh Women Lawyers Association, Advocate Nazma Yasmin, director of the Institute of Labour Studies, and...
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