Dilruba Anguri
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| Born | April 23, 1950 |
| Died | February 2, 2017 (aged 66) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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| Years active | 1980–2016 |
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| Children | 3 |
Dilruba Anguri (April 23, 1950 – February 02, 2017) was a Bangladeshi entrepreneur and the General Secretary of Bangladesh Homeworkers Women Association BHWA. She introduced the idea of making handmade crafts products from home homebased workers in the informal sector and dedicated years campaigning for a national wage policy[1] and activism making her organization the first NGO representing homebased workers to be granted a trade union status by a Government.[2]
Career
Dilruba Anguri founded her organization BHWA in 1986[3]. As the General Secretary, she would go on to spearhead several societal issues at the time such as elimination of child labour[4], and with the support of international organization such as the International Labour Organization raise awareness to female labourers' rights in the informal sector who were not covered under the labour code and their workplace safety.[5]
In 1999, Anguri would have listed 14,000 members across 5 districts in Bangladesh mainly from the rural areas of Bangladesh into her organization.[6]
In 2003, with the aid of United Nations Development Fund for Women|UNIFEM, Anguri created the Mapping of women Homebased Workers in the Informal Sector in Bangladesh[7] which aimed at combating unemployment in the formal sector as well as outline how the women workforce in the informal sector can contribute towards the country's growing GDP.[8]
References
- ↑ "Home-based workers seek nat'l wage policy". Vol. 5 Num 871. No. Star Business Report. The Daily Star (Bangladesh). November 9, 2006. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ↑ "Working at home pays more than house work". Vol.4 Num 49. No. Star City. The Daily Star (Bangladesh). July 15, 2003. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ↑ Gul Khattak, Saba; Habib, Kiran; Sadiq Khan, Foqia (24 May 2011). Women and Human Security in South Asia: The Cases of Bangladesh and Pakistan South Asia human security series (PDF). University Press. p. 124. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ↑ Selim, Shahpar (2011). Ecological modernization and environmental compliance : the garments industry in Bangladesh (1. iss. in paperback. ed.). New Delhi: Routledge. p. 86. ISBN 978-0415598194.
- ↑ Mahmud, Simeen; Huq, Lopita (February 10, 2013). "Home Based Workers in the Export Garment Sector in Bangladesh:An Exploratory Study in Dhaka City" (PDF). Solidarity Center. pp. 28, 29.
- ↑ Manjul Bajaj (1999). Invisible Workers, Visible Contribution. A Study of Home Based Workers in Five Sectors across South Asia (PDF). WIEGO. pp. 19, 20.
- ↑ Dilruba Anguri, Ahrita Shahid and Shahid Helal (2003). Mapping of women Homebased Workers in the Informal Sector in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Homeworkers Women Association. ASIN B00GL4N7P4.
- ↑ Gul Khattak, Martha Chen; Joann Vanek, Francie Lund; James Heintz, Renana Jhabvala and Christine Bonner. Progress of the World's Women 2005. UNIFEM. p. 79.
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