Bangladesh has been an important and active Member State of the ILO since June 22, 1972. To date, Bangladesh has ratified 33 ILO Conventions including seven fundamental Conventions as enshrined in the ILO Declaration. The ILO Office works in close collaboration with its tripartite constituents and social partners towards achieving Bangladesh’s decent work objectives.
Under the main outputs of the Bangladesh decent work country programme, tripartite constituents are being sensitized about gender issues, indigenous people, HIV/AIDS, safe migration and labour market issues, for reflecting and promoting the principles of ILO standards. Social protection and rights of workers is protected in sectors such as ready made garments, ship recycling industry and migration through occupational safety and health, and awareness raising on HIV/AIDS.
The Government is working actively to adopt the child labour policy and has shown its commitment for ratifying ILO C.138 as stated by the Minister of Labour and Employment, and Expartiates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, at the ILO’s 90th anniversary in Dhaka on May 3, 2009.
The Government, in line with C.144 has formulated a Tripartite Consultative Committee (TCC) to review the labour policy after 29 years which was initially adopted in 1980.
For more information please contact:
T.I.M. Nurunnabi Khan
Programme Officer
ILO Dhaka