International Women’s Day
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Staff of ILO Bangladesh celebrated International Women’s Day, 8 March 2017.

Also taking part were the ambassadors of the US, Canada, Norway, Sri Lanka, Sweden and Australia.
Meanwhile, staff of the ILO’s Improving Working Conditions in the Ready- Made Garment Sector programme led by gender specialist Shammim Sultana marked the International Women’s Day by making pledges as to how they would support gender equality in 2017. Pledges included ‘I will protest all gender based discrimination’,

To inspire staff members to work towards gender equality, inspiring passages from the works of eminent women’s rights activist Begum Rokey and Facebook Chief Operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg were read out. Meanwhile theatre group ‘Bottala’ performed a powerful piece of street theatre named ‘Ar noy Chup thaka’ (No more silence). The show talks about sexual harassment and its consequences on women and why men should change their attitudes towards women and raise their voices against sexual harassment.