Naripokkho has been working as a women’s activist group since the 1980s. The organisation has been mainly involved with issues such as violence against women, dowry, gender discrimination and so on. So far it has not undertaken any project on the female migrant workers of Bangladesh. Naripokkho, however, played an active role in the dissemination of a report on the domestic aides in the Kuwait (Human Rights Watch, 1992). It was a participant at the 1994 Cairo Summit on Population. At the Summit’s Migration chapter Naripokkho highlighted the issue of migrant workers’ right to be united with their families. In 1996 Naripokkho became involved with the issue of the plight of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia following the publication of the Tenaganita memorandum (1996) on the condition of the migrant workers in Malaysia. Naripokkho disseminated the contents of the report among the civil society organisations and the government functionaries, including those of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Foreign Affairs. Naripokkho reported that, following its initiative, the Minister for State for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh took up the issue and the ministry followed up the matter resulting in the declaration of an amnesty and the subsequent regularisation of several thousand undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia.
Address: Naripokkho
House # 46 Road # 13/A
Dhanmondi R/A Dhaka-1209
Tel: 0171-528785, 0171-819064, 0171-478494, 0171-593960, 0171-593961