Victimization and Violation of Rights of Women in Garments Sector in Bangladesh: A Study on Women Garments Workers of Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka

Author: Alam, Mohammad Ashraful; Banarjee, Subrata; Sharmin, Sumona & Akter, Mansura

Abstract: Women workers are the highest part in garments sector in Bangladesh; they are still victimized in work place by coworkers, senior, and officers. This study mainly focuses to find out the nature, cause and patterns of women victimization and violation of their existing rights in RMG sector. This is a descriptive study and data have been collected from the women workers ten garments factories of Ashulia, Savar. The findings of the study shows that most of the worker’s earn less than a dollar (US) a day, faced sexual harassment and different types of victimization Finally the paper suggests that the proper enforcement of existing labour code and ensuring rights must be implemented at factory level to reduce the victimization of women workers.

Keywords: victimization, female workers, violation, rights, Labour Act