All news: Bangladesh

Women's empowerment

Investing to empower: Shalimar's journey from victim to champion

Shalimar overcame poverty, gender discrimination, and violence to become a line supervisor at EchoTex Ltd. through the GEAR initiative. Her journey from a factory helper to a leadership role and activist against gender-based violence exemplifies...

Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes for women & girls: A Plea for Action

To mark the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence observance, the Government of Canada funded ILO’s ProGRESS project supported the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) to conduct a rapid survey on gender-based violence (GBV) in TVET...

Disability Inclusion

ILO in Bangladesh to steer UN’s disability inclusion agenda for next two years

The ILO Country Director for Bangladesh Tuomo Poutiainen has been selected as the next UN Disability Champion. On behalf of the UN agencies based in Bangladesh, he will coordinate the UN Disability Inclusion Task Team that works to mainstream...

Labour Market Data

Latest Bangladesh Labour Force Survey incorporates first-ever disability data

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has published the Labour Force Survey 2022, incorporating for the first time ever, indicators for measuring disability inclusivity, a major step towards ensuring no one is left behind.

ILO organizes regional technical meeting on statistics of international labour migration and migrant recruitment costs in South Asia

A sub-regional meeting on labour migration brought together government, social partners, CSOs and academia to discuss and identify issues, challenges and more importantly to develop action plans to better measure, analyze and disseminate labour...

Minimum wage

Statement on the minimum wage in the Bangladesh ready-made garment (RMG) sector

ILO calls for all parties to continue to engage in constructive dialogue to reach a consensus beneficial to workers and industry alike.

Childcare

Bangladesh holds dialogue to chart way forward for the childcare economy

The Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs together with ILO and UN Women held a consultative dialogue on ways of effectively scaling up accessible, affordable, and quality childcare services to all parents and children countrywide.

Informality

Unlocking the potential of small and medium-sized businesses in Bangladesh

Despite impressive economic growth of more than six per cent per annum in the past decade, policymakers and businesses in Bangladesh continue to ponder why the country continues to rank low in productivity and innovation indices

Pensions

Fulfilling social protection for older persons in Bangladesh

Ensuring income security for people in old age is a crucial dimension of the UN common agenda of social security and universal social protection for all. The rights of older people to social security and to an adequate standard of living are laid...

Skills and enterprise

ILO and the Government of Bangladesh launch skills and economic livelihoods project for women and youth in Cox’s Bazar

24,000 Bangladeshis, 18 to 35 years old, will learn valuable skills for work and business.

Community-based Child Labour Monitoring System rescues Bangladesh’s future teachers

A community-based child labour monitoring system supported by ILO in Bangladesh is identifying and rescuing children from poor families who would have otherwise been trapped and lost in the vicious circle of abject poverty.

Social security

EIS Sub-Committee continues to enroll RMG workers for compensation for work-related death and disability

Since the piloting of an Employment Injury Scheme (EIS) for workers in June 2022, the Government of Bangladesh constituted a tripartite sub-committee to regularly meet and review cases of work-related deaths and disabilities in the ready-made...

Sustainable development

Bangladesh businesses constitute SDG Committees to accelerate Agenda 2030

The Bangladesh Private Sector Working Committee (BPSWC) unveiled its organizational structure and the members of its five working groups that will work with the Government and the UN to accelerate achievement of the SDGs.

Bangladesh Youth Champion Green Skills for Youth Impacted by Climate Crisis

In collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched their first joint Youth Green Skills Accelerator Challenge Call in May 2022. The joint initiative was aimed at fostering innovation...

Our impact, their voices

Skills training proved to be a transformative experience for Rozen

The EU-funded Skills 21 project is making a real difference to the lives of young women and men in Bangladesh.

Youth employment

ILO research highlights gaps and potential in use of technology to help youth find work

Technological transformation in public employment services can support youth in Asia-Pacific to navigate labour market transitions and enter decent work.

Our impact, their voices

How vocational education and training gave me the skills for success

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) can be a window of opportunity for young people searching for decent work across wide a range of occupational fields and production services.

Occupational safety and health

Handbook and checklist for model enterprise clinics in garment industry launched

The handbook will help factories and enterprises provide healthcare facilities to better cater for workers' health and general wellbeing while at work as stipulated in the Bangladesh Labour Act.

Statement on the death in Bangladesh of Mr Shahidul Islam

President of the Gazipur branch of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, (BGIWF) died on 25 June 2023.

Technical Experts Meeting on South Asia Qualifications Reference Framework (SAQRF)

The Qualifications Framework will ease the movement of workers and students across the region and bring equal opportunities and fairness in the recruitment process.