✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ property, natural resource and customary rights, representation at the decision-making levels, language, education and cultural rights. This act should be passed without any further delay. In addition to the government gazette notification which declared the Hijras as the third gender in Bangladesh, formulate definitions of Hijras and ensure children identified as third gender enjoy their rights accordance with CRC. Further add the third gender as a category in the national census Ensure speedy disposal of Vested Property return cases Continue to take measures to address population growth enabling better enjoyment of economic and social rights among others. Continue to advance rights of women in areas linked with property right and private sphere to ensure the equality of women in matters of marriage, divorce, child custody and political empowerment. Affirmative action’s such as State funds allocated to uplift the plight of Dalit and third gender communities should be extended to other socially excluded communities to ensure a culture of Human Rights in the country is instilled. Criminalize sexual harassment of women and girls in the public places, workplace and in school. Take initiative with the private sectors and schools to introduce mechanism to address sexual harassment. Part 2 - Articles 6 – 8 of the Covenant Article 6 Work as a right Article 7 Just and favourable conditions for work Article 8 Right to Trade Unions 24. The right to work recognizes work as an individual entitlement. Right to work means, the right to participate in the producing and servicing activities of human society and the right to participate in the benefits accrued through these joint activities to an extent that guarantees an adequate standard of living. The right to work thus ensures that nobody is excluded from the economic sphere34. 25. The Constitution of Bangladesh in Article 20 (1) states that work is a right, a duty and a matter of honour for every citizen who is capable of working, and everyone shall be paid for his work on the basis of the principles “from each according to his abilities to each according to his work.” 26. Article 20 (2) states that the State shall endeavour to create conditions in which, as a general principle, persons shall not be able to enjoy unread incomes, and in which human labour in every form, intellectual and physical, shall become a fuller expression of creative endeavour and of the human personality. The right to work, that is the right to guaranteed employment at a reasonable wage having regard to the quantity and quality of works is 34 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance, page 15, published by the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh: http://nhrc.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/nhrc.portal.gov.bd 9