Strengthening Citizens Initiative for Participatory Budget
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Fatema Akter
Fatema Akter is an RMG worker at a printing factory and a mother of a 9-year old madrasa going child. She is living in Bauniabadh, Kalshi area of Mirpur with her mother and seven other siblings. They lost their father at young age, so the 3 older siblings started to earn and help…
Permanently disable worker Rasul Sardar got compensation;
Rasul Sardar, son of late Mubarak Sardar of Bharatpur village in Monirampur upazila of Jessore district., He could not go to school due to poverty. At a young age he used to raise cows and goats in the next house for a monthly wage of only 10 taka and three meals a day. Rasul Sardar…
A little smile from the tears
Mainuddi Sagar entered the workplace as a teenager to alleviate the financial crisis of family. After the death of his father, he was the only earning member in the family of an elderly mother and two younger brother and sister. He joined pipe fitting work as a teenager to put a smile on everyone’s face.…
Laboni
VAW; Case story- “I think this is the first time a worker in our factory has paid to her maternity benefit” said Laboni, an RMG worker from Four Brothers Group of Factories. She has been working as a machine operator for three and a half year in this factory. Her husband Md. Nasir is…
538 killed in workplace accidents in 2021
The number of deaths ham workplace accidents across the country marked a rise last year as at least 538 workers were killed during the time. Some 432 workers died in 373 work• place accidents in 2020. according to a study Safety and Rights Society (SRS), a nom government organisation. has revealed the findings on Friday…