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.
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