Women are making an outstanding contribution to the development journey of Bangladesh. Women's empowerment is playing a special role in transforming the economic process of Bangladesh through social change. Sheikh Mohammad Belal, Bangladesh's ambassador to the Netherlands, was one of the panel speakers at a high-level seminar at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Tuesday (February 5th).
The seminar was organized by the International Criminal Court in collaboration with the embassies of Canada and Switzerland during the inauguration of the International Gender Champions Den Haag Hub. The ‘Gender Champion’ is an initiative that focuses on individual equality and gender equality at all levels of the workplace in order to empower women.
Describing women's empowerment as a major social change for Bangladesh, Ambassador Belal highlighted the context of this change. Describing the context of Bangladesh's development progress, she said some innovative initiatives, especially the recruitment of women in micro-credit and readymade garments, have enabled them to transcend their limited boundaries and engage themselves in productive activities. Hundreds of thousands of women in Bangladesh have overcome hundreds of obstacles due to the government's policy support.Highlighting the context of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2018, she briefed the audience on how Bangladesh has surpassed developed countries like the United States, Italy, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Singapore and other developed countries in women's empowerment. He added that in this report, Bangladesh ranks fifth in the world in terms of political empowerment of women and in this case also only Iceland, Nicaragua, Norway and Rwanda are above Bangladesh.
Explaining the contribution of working women in the garment industry in Bangladesh, the ambassador told everyone present that the wages of garment workers in Bangladesh have increased by about 262 per cent in the last nine years. He is one of the brand companies of the ready-made garment industry and the product considering all the consumers 'Introduces the proposal to attach ‘Optional Barcodes’, which may be recognized as a form of voluntary assistance to garment workers. He urged the European Union and brand companies to consider the move as a topping up process.
The seminar was inaugurated by the President of the International Criminal Court, Justice Chile Eboi Osuji. The keynote speakers were ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, Caitlin Kraft, Executive Director of Women @ The Table, and Hans de Boer, Chairman of the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW) and co-founder of the IGC. Heinz Walker Nederkrun, Swiss Ambassador to the Netherlands, was in charge of the operation.
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