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Occupational Safety and Health Training Program

Bangladesh Labour Foundation launched Workplace Occupational Safety and Health Training Program in Informal RMG with the Support of Brac

Bangladesh Labour Foundation launched Workplace Occupational Safety and Health Training Program in Informal RMG with the Support of BracBLF organized 4 batches of training for the workers of informal RMG in Keranigonj on the Workplace Occupational Safety and Health on 4th November 2022. 80 workers of Informal RMG participated in the training. The major topics […]

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Refreshers Training for Tannery workers on OSH

Refreshers Training for Tannery workers on OSH | Labour Rights | GBV and Advocacy | Negotiation skills

Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) organized a day long non-residential refreshers training on OSH, Labour Rights, GBV and Advocacy/Negotiation skills for Tannery Workers with the financial and technical support of The Asia Foundation (TAF).   Training Venue: The Luncheon Restaurant, Hemayetpur, Savar, Dhaka   Participants: 25 workers from 10 factories of the Tannery Industries   Objective:

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International Home-Based Workers’ Day

Bangladesh Labour Foundation celebrates International Home-Based Workers’ Day

Bangladesh Labour Foundation held special events along with affiliates, allies and associate organizations on the occasion of International Home-based Workers’ Day. October 20 is marked as the International Home-based Workers’ Day. This year the day is observed with a theme “Let’s organise and grow the Home-based Workers Movement”. In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million

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Financial Inclusion of Vulnerable Women is much important to achieve SDGs by 2030

Looking at building a better and more financially inclusive ecosystem for women, Bangladesh Labour Foundation is working in the Vulnerable Women Benefit (VWB) Program of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, GoB. This program aims to improve the nutritional status of women, children and adolescents through improved food consumption, education, skills development, livelihood diversification

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Bangladesh Government is working to eliminate Child Labour from Hazardous Sectors

Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) has been working with the Ministry of Labour & Employment, GoB to eliminate child labour from hazardous work. Nearly one thousand child workers are now under BLF skill development program who those are engaged in the listed hazardous sector of Bangladesh Government. In BLF skill development center, the children are given

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NGO Affairs Bureau

Representatives from NGO Affairs Bureau, Office of the Prime Minister visited the project area of BLF in Keranigonj

Mr. Sirajul Islam Khan, Assignment Officer (Senior Assistant Secretary), NGO Affairs Bureau, Office of the Prime Minister visited in Keranigonj to observe the situation of Local RMG including the child labour situation. He visited few factories and attended in an awareness session with the factory owners and workers on the elimination of child labour from

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Keraniganj informal RMG sector heads up to eliminate child labour from the workplace

With the support of Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF), Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) organized a meeting with Employers’ Associations and Trade Unions of Keraniganj Local RMG on October 16, 2022, at the Office of the Deputy Inspector General, Dhaka District. The objective of the meeting is to share the progress of the

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MoniaalFNV visited Informal RMG in Keraniganj | Dhaka

MondiaalFNV visited Informal RMG in Keraniganj | Dhaka

Representatives from the Mondiaal FNV visited Keraniganj along with Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) where Ruben Korevaar, Policy Officer; Eva Scheffer, Fund Raising Officer and Md. Shahinur Rahman, Consultant of MondiaalFNV were present. Executive Director of BLF and other senior officers were present during the visit. They have observed the condition of the Local RMG on

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