BAFLF Women Committee and Workers Education Center (WEC) jointly observed International Women’s Day-2014

International Women’s Day was observed in Bangladesh like elsewhere pressing for equal rights of men and women in social, political and economic sectors.
BAFLF Women Committee and Workers Education Center (WEC) jointly observed the day through various programmes including procession and rally demanding equal rights, implementation of the government’s directive of six-month maternity leave for agriculture farm women labours as well as all working women in private sector, ensure health rights, end to sexual harassment, safe workplace for women, and women’s safety in all levels of the society.

After procession and rally BAFLF-WC and WEC also organised discussions in BRRI Auditorium, Gazipur. The discussants urged the authorities to stop practicing politics using religion that hindered women empowerment and equality. In her speech the chairperson of BAFLF-WC also said that women were still being deprived of the equal right to inherited properties and in many working places they were facing discrimination in wages. Among others the general secretary of BAFLF, also the president of Workers Education Center (WEC) Abdul Mozid, Md. Kafil Uddin,  President of Akota Garments Workers Federation, Asma Khatun, Vic-President of Akota Garments Workers Federation and others women activists took part in the deliberation.