Workshop on Bangladesh
“GLOBALISATION, TRADE LIBERALISATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ASIA:
SHOULD LABOUR AND ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS BE PART OF THE EQUATION? THE CASE OF BANGLADESH”.
(Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia/UNEAC workshop)
Workshop on Bangladesh
“GLOBALISATION, TRADE LIBERALISATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ASIA:
SHOULD LABOUR AND ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS BE PART OF THE EQUATION? THE CASE OF BANGLADESH”.
(Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia/UNEAC workshop)
This workshop, convened by Prof. Amarjit Kaur and Prof. Ian Metcalfe, and jointly funded by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the UNE Asia Centre, involved two leading workers for women's rights in Bangladesh, academics from Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and Auckland (New Zealand) as well as from UNE, and focused on labour and environmental issues in Bangladesh in the context of globalisation.
Syeda Sharmin Absar and Mashuda Khatun Shefali, from the Centre for Women's Initiatives (NUK) in Dhaka, talked about the impact of globalisation on women workers in Bangladesh. NUK, which Mashuda Khatun Shefali directs, has been working for a decade to improve the living conditions, and access to transport and health care, of women working in Bangladesh's garment industry.
The workshop took place on 3-4 October and was part of the UNE Asia Centre’s research initiative ‘investigating social and environmental aspects of resource development in Asia’.
A Report on the Workshop is available in the Academy’s Newsletter, Dialogue, Vol. 21, 3(2002), 4-8.
Papers from the Workshop will be published as a special issue of the journal South Asia during 2003