3. Objectives
• To discuss about the background of Business and Human Rights
Issue
• To sort out the problems and barriers of Business and Human
Rights Issue
• To find out some recommendations for Business and Human
Rights Issue
4. Methodology
The study explores the Business and Human Rights Issue
in Bangladesh. It is exploratory in nature based on a
qualitative approach.
10. Current Problems
• Non-payment or Late Payment of Wages and Benefits
• Workplace Discrimination and Challenges for Pregnant Women
• Physical and Verbal Abuse
• Forced Overtime
• Dirty Drinking Water and Unsanitary Facilities
11. • Threats of Sexual Violence
• Dismissal of Union Organizers and Members
• Education Barrier
• Eviction
12. Recommendations
• The Bangladesh government should carry out effective and impartial investigations
into all workers’ allegations of mistreatment, including beatings, threats, and other
abuses, and prosecute those responsible
• The Bangladesh government should revise the labor law to ensure it is in line with
international labor standards. Amendments made to date fall short of International
Labour Organization’s conventions ratified by Bangladesh, including Convention No.
87 on freedom of association and Convention No. 98 on the right to organize and
bargain collectively.
• Companies sourcing from Bangladesh factories should institute regular factory
inspections to ensure that factories comply with companies’ codes of conduct and
the Bangladesh Labor Law.
13. • Companies should work in consultation with unions and labor rights lawyers to
ensure that pricing and sourcing contracts adequately reflect and incorporate the
cost of labor, health, and safety compliance. Such contracts should include the cost
of the minimum wage, overtime payments, and all legal benefits.
• Take measures to improve basic education in order to reduce child labor.
• Take the particular contexts of poor families into account by creating a non-formal
education system parallel to primary education.
• Create awareness among parents about the consequences of risky child labor.
• Accelerate the food for education program at a large scale.
14. • Improve the health services for children in areas where it is known that child
workers are living and working
• Improve the health services of rural health centers
• Create mobile medical teams that visit and treat child workers at their work
places
• to control the industrialization process in a proper way.
•The Govt. is only one that may bound every factory or industry to perform their
activities so that industrial waste & pollution reduce in a great extent.
15. • Effective rules & regulations must be enforced against the owner & labours of
various industry in order to consider the surrounding situation of environment.
• All types of factory, industry or machineries should be established far away of
the habitants of human or other living animals so that the effects of various
industrial activities can not affect human or other living animals directly.
• The Govt. also can build up some codes or principles and emphasis these to
follow strictly and make these principles mandatory.
16. • Sometimes the owners of industry don't follow the standard of their industrial
activities and produce products violating the rules & regulation for more profit.
Here the owners group should sincere and maintain the standard.+
• Besides more productivity, the industrialization procedure should follow such
a way that the environment is not disturbed. Because if the environment
becomes uncomfortable to live in, nothing will be helpful to survive our and
other living animals life.
• For ensuring the human basic rights properly, the govt. should monitor the
industrialization process so that the labours get their minimum daily wages and
the owners also control this in a specific way.
