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Sectors

Sectors We Transform: Creating Impact Across Key Areas
We are on a mission to create impactful change in the different sectors, focusing our efforts on key sectors that play a pivotal role in shaping communities and individuals.

Readymade Garment (Export)

Modern slavery and child labour refer to exploitative practices where individuals, particularly children, are coerced into work under poor conditions, often involving physical or psychological abuse.

Readymade Garment (Local)

The concept of a Just Transition involves ensuring that the transition to a green economy, driven by climate change initiatives and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), is fair and inclusive for all workers.

Agriculture

Gender equality and social inclusion focus on ensuring that all individuals, regardless of gender, have equal access to opportunities, resources, and rights. This includes challenging gender-based discrimination,

Handloom

Decent work involves ensuring that individuals have employment that provides fair wages, job security, and a safe working environment. Social protection refers to policies and programs that provide a safety net for individuals and families,

Jute & Cotton

Ensuring safety and health at work involves creating environments where workers are protected from physical harm, mental stress, and occupational diseases. This includes enforcing health and safety regulations,

Home Based Workers

Social dialogue involves the process of communication between employers, employees, and governments, to discuss and resolve issues concerning labour rights and working conditions.

Domestic Workers

Human rights due diligence involves businesses and governments assessing and addressing the potential human rights risks and impacts of their operations and supply chains.

Waste Pickers

Freedom of association refers to the right of workers to form and join trade unions, and collectively bargain for better working conditions. It also ensures that workers can voice their concerns without fear of retaliation,

Texttile

Gender-based violence and sexual harassment at work are serious issues that affect many employees, particularly women. These behaviors create unsafe and hostile work environments and must be addressed through policies,

Street Work

Gender-based violence and sexual harassment at work are serious issues that affect many employees, particularly women. These behaviors create unsafe and hostile work environments and must be addressed through policies,

Informal Work

Gender-based violence and sexual harassment at work are serious issues that affect many employees, particularly women. These behaviors create unsafe and hostile work environments and must be addressed through policies,

Readymade Garment (Export)

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Readymade Garment (Local)

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Agriculture

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Handloom

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Jute & Cotton

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Home Based Workers

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Domestic Workers

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Waste Pickers

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Texttile

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Street Work

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Informal Work

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Readymade Garment (Export)

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Readymade Garment (Local)

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Agriculture

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Handloom

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Jute & Cotton

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Home Based Workers

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Domestic Workers

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Waste Pickers

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Texttile

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Street Work

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Informal Work

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Approaches

Rights-Based and Worker-Centric Approach

BLF prioritizes a worker-first model, ensuring fair wages, safe working conditions, and legal protections. It advocates for freedom of association, collective bargaining, and inclusive labor policies across all sectors.

Due Diligence & Ethical Business Practices

Promotes mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) in supply chains, ensuring ethical labor standards. Engages with brands, buyers, and policymakers to enforce responsible business practices in key industries.

Grassroots Mobilization & Worker Empowerment

Strengthens worker organizing, trade union engagement, and leadership development. BLF mobilizes marginalized workers in informal, RMG, leather, construction, and transport sectors to improve representation and workplace rights.

Awareness, Training & Capacity Development

Enhances worker knowledge through legal rights training, workplace safety programs, and digital awareness initiatives. Focuses on gender equity, social protection, and fair labor practices across all employment sectors.

Multi-Stakeholder Engagement & Policy Advocacy

Collaborates with MOLE, DIFE, NSDA, ILO, and trade unions to strengthen labor policies. Advocates for tripartite social dialogue, legal reforms, and sustainable industrial relations to protect workersโ€™ rights.

Research, Data-Driven Advocacy & Monitoring

Conducts policy research, labor condition assessments, and compliance monitoring to provide evidence-based recommendations. Uses data-driven advocacy to push for labor law enforcement and workplace accountability.

Decent Work Check (DWC) and Workers Priority Pool (WPP)

Implements the Decent Work Check (DWC) to assess workplace conditions and ensure fair employment standards. The Workers Priority Pool (WPP) connects workers to job opportunities, training, and social benefits.

Climate Justice and Just Transition

Advocates for labor-friendly climate adaptation policies and green job creation. Ensures fair transitions for workers affected by climate change, industrial shifts, and environmental degradation in key industries.

Technological Transition and Rights of Gig Workers

Pushes for worker protections in automation, AI, and gig economy platforms. Advocates for social security, fair wages, and digital rights to support a just technological transition in emerging labor sectors.

Legal Aid and Support Service

Provides pro bono legal assistance, labor rights protection, and workplace dispute resolution. Supports workers facing wage theft, unfair dismissals, and discrimination through legal representation and policy advocacy.

Social Protection and Welfare Initiative

Promotes universal social security, maternity benefits, accident insurance, and pension schemes. Strengthens labor welfare policies to ensure economic security and fair treatment for all workers.

Institutional Capacity and Partnership

Enhances BLFโ€™s operational efficiency, governance, and multi-stakeholder collaborations. Builds strategic partnerships with ILO, EU, OECD, trade unions, and civil society organizations to strengthen labor advocacy.

How we work

Enforceable standards

In global manufacturing, regulation usually means self-regulation, with brands inspecting their own suppliers under voluntary standards. The WRC promotes and enforces binding labor standards, the only kind that ever work in the real world

Enforceable standards

In global manufacturing, regulation usually means self-regulation, with brands inspecting their own suppliers under voluntary standards. The WRC promotes and enforces binding labor standards, the only kind that ever work in the real world

Enforceable standards

In global manufacturing, regulation usually means self-regulation, with brands inspecting their own suppliers under voluntary standards. The WRC promotes and enforces binding labor standards, the only kind that ever work in the real world

Enforceable standards

In global manufacturing, regulation usually means self-regulation, with brands inspecting their own suppliers under voluntary standards. The WRC promotes and enforces binding labor standards, the only kind that ever work in the real world

Our Work

we successfully conducted a comprehensive Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Training for the dedicated staff of all partner organizations of Mondiaal FNV in Bangladesh, including Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF), Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS), and Awaj Foundation.
Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) held an Advocacy Meeting with the Upazila Social Welfare Officer of Savar Upazila to champion
Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) organized two days long training on Labour Rights, Collective Bargaining and Negotiation
An โ€™Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) Training Module Customization and Validation Workshopโ€™ was organized by Bangladesh Labour

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