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Country Director, ILO, Bangladesh The ILO Convention Eliminating Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190) and its accompanying Recommendation (R206) went through a long process and it culminated in the adoption of the convention in the ILO Centenary Conference in 2019. The Bangladesh government voted in favour of the adoption of the Convention C190 and Recommendation R206 and we are optimistic about the ratification of C190 by the government of Bangladesh. Workers' and Employers' organisation need to engage to discuss the convention's ratification and figure out how it can be integ...

Disrupted Global Supply Chain Amid Corona Woven exports fall, knitwear sector rebounds 8th January, 2021 09:40:26 The woven sector, which makes up more than 50 per cent of RMG exports, has continued to remain in the negative trajectory due to a fall in export orders from major markets like US and EU amid the corona pandemic. Though the knitwear sector has been maintaining its strength in the first half of the current fiscal, the woven sector continues to stay weak. The RMG sector, which contributes around 86 per cent to the country’s total exports income, is comprised of two sectors includi...

Flashback in Outgoing 2020: Corona hits hard RMG sector 31st December, 2020 09:38:45 The ready-made garment (RMG) sector, the lifeline of the country’s exports, has faced its toughest year in 2020 as the entire apparel supply chain collapsed due to the economic fallout caused by coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic that erupted at the beginning of the outgoing year pushed the RMG sector into a great uncertainty with widespread order cancellation, fall in export prices, factory closure, lay offs and job losses. During the February-April period, apparel makers faced cancellation of export order...