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Dormitories to be built for female workers: Munnujan

Staff Correspondent
State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Munnujan Sufian yesterday said the government is planning to build dormitories for female garment workers near their workplaces.
The concerned ministry already sat in talks with the garment owners who would give vacant land to the ministry for construction of dormitories, she added.
“Garment workers, especially females, are some of the worst sufferers and victims of social injustice as they are being maltreated, abused at every step of their lives despite their huge contribution to the national economy."
Munnujan said this as the chief guest at a seminar on the World human Rights Day at the National Press Club in the city. This year's theme of the day was 'Embrace diversity end discrimination'.
The seminar was jointly organised by Bangladesh Human Rights Coordination Council, Bangladesh Child Rights Forum, Voluntary Health Services Society, ST1/AIDS Network of Bangladesh, Habitat Council Bangladesh, Coalition for the Urban Poor, Disadvantaged Adolescent Working NGOs' Forum and Daridro Bimochon Forum (Poverty Reduction Forum).
The state minister said, “Be it human rights or anything else, the biggest enemy of our country is poverty," adding: “It is because of poverty, millions of people are deprived of their basic human rights".
“Family has a crucial role to play here as it is their responsibility to provide their newborns with the basic human rights. The state as well as the society takes a secondary role here."
Speakers at the seminar also stressed the importance of family in educating and instilling the essence of human rights and democracy in their children.
They said formal education or mass awareness campaign would fall short of expectations if the children do not receive the true sense of democracy and importance of individual rights from their family members.
“The definition of human rights is a concept that is vague to many people. A lot of people are not really aware of the full essence of human rights and their core implications,” said Chief Information Commissioner M Azizur Rahman as the special guest.
"Therefore, the practice of human rights should be started from family level as the members of a family are the biggest influencers of one's behaviour and attitude," he added.
Chairperson Wahida Banu said educating the youth about the rights to democracy and human rights would be fruitiess unless the family contributes an integral part to the process.
State Minister for Cultural Affairs Advocate Promod Mankin, Nani Gopal Mandol MP, DORP Secretary General AHM Nouman and Manobadhikar O Samaj Unnayan Sangstha Chairman Advocate Golam Rahman Bhuiyan also spoke.