Labour Act 2006 and implementing the beneficial provisions of the Draft Domestic Worker Protection and Welfare Policy; (5) monitoring the cases of violence against the domestic workers nd ensuring prosecution of the perpetrators of such violence; (6) maintaining a list of children in a register to be kept in every Union Parishad and obliging parents of young children who send their children from rural to urban areas for work to register the details of the child; (7) setting up a mandatory registration regime for child domestic workers which would require all employers to register the details of children or other domestic workers with local government units such as Pourashava or municipal corporations (though not Union Parishads); (8) expecting that the Government would take steps to enact law requiring that the employers must ensure health check-up of domestic workers once in every two months; (9) requiring that existing legal framework would be strengthened in such a way that benefits of regulated working hours, rest, recreation, salary etc. enjoyed by industrial workers are also ensured for all domestic workers; and (10) requiring that laws would ensure proper medical treatment and compensation to be paid by employers to the domestic workers for any illness, injury or fatality occurring in the course of employment or as a result of it. 28. The BNHRCis aware that a Draft Policy named, ‘the Domestic Workers Protection and Welfare Policy 2010’ had yet to be adopted by the Government at the time of the writing of the present report.24 Under this policy, the Home Ministry would be required to issue a departmental order to the effect that where a domestic worker becomes a victim of physical or mental abuse, then the concerned police station must take immediate and effective measures.25 The Government would also form a central monitoring cell, monitoring cells at City Corporation and Pourashava levels as well as district and Upazilla levels.26 29. The BNHRC urges the GoB to implement every available measure to protect children from all forms of violence immediately. 30. RIGHT OF THE CHILDREN (DEPRIVED OF FAMILY) TO SPECIAL PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY THE STATE From the Fifth Periodic State Party Report, the BNHRC has observed that, although the GoB has established or patronised a number of infrastructural facilities such as orphanages, child-care homes and day care centres etc., to provide for children deprived of family, the existing legal framework did not address this matter adequately. 24Ibid. 25Ibid, at p 18 26Ibid. 14

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