Toward the Development of Post Covid-19 Gender Policy and Accountability Measures to End Modern Slavery in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector: A Policy Brief for the UK Government and Stakeholders

Muhammad Islam; Pamela Abbott; Shamima Haque; Fiona  Gooch; Salma  Akhter

doi:10.20392/e97s-m830

Toward the Development of Post Covid-19 Gender Policy and Accountability Measures to End Modern Slavery in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector: A Policy Brief for the UK Government and Stakeholders

Muhammad Islam, Pamela Abbott, Shamima Haque, Fiona Gooch , Salma Akhter

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This policy brief focuses on gender discrimination in the RMG in Bangladesh during the Covid-19 pandemic. Bangladesh has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and signed up to the SDGs, committing to promote gender justice to ensure that women can claim and exercise their rights under domestic and international law. However, Bangladesh employment law offers little protection to women, and what protection it offers is not enforced. Factory owners and managers disregard the law with impunity. This policy brief highlights the vulnerability of women RMG workers, particularly in factories that produced garments products for the UK retailers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. This policy brief calls upon the various stakeholders, including the Bangladesh Ministry of Labour, international buyers, including those in the UK, The UK government and RMG factory owners, to promote gender justice for women RMG workers. This policy brief highlights key policy recommendations for the UK Government.

Original language	English
Publisher	University of Aberdeen
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.20392/e97s-m830
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2021

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Name	Policy Brief 02
Publisher	University of Aberdeen

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This policy brief is based on findings from the project ‘Toward the Development of Post Covid-19 Gender Policy Measures to End Modern Slavery and Exploitation in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector’. The project was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the UK Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) call for research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on modern slavery (AHRC grant Ref: AH/V009788/1).

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