Bangladesh Society for the Enforcement of Human Rights (BSEHR) is working for a long time to promote the legal status of the disadvantaged in Bangladesh. Though the organisation started its work in 1977, it was registered as a full-fledged organisation in 1979. Its broad objective is to establish rule of law and social justice by providing legal support services, advocacy, building awareness on legal issues through various programmes of message dissemination and skill development. BSEHR has dealt with three cases involving female migrant workers. Two of the three cases were related to abuse and one with property. BSEHR has several plans concerning female migrant workers on the basis of its experience with female migrant workers. It plans to organise a network involving embassies and human rights organisations in receiving countries with the aim of stopping incidents where legal migration turns into trafficking. It also plans to conduct research, provide more legal aid service and to lobby for amending existing laws, if necessary, so that relief can be provided to the victims. BSEHR also lobbies to add the mother’s name in the passports along with the father or husband’s name. The organisation believes that doing so will prevent child trafficking, a child can get to know his/her real mother’s name in case of broken family or similar type of unusual cases, and it will help the cause of gender equality.
Address: BSEHR
153, Monipuri Para,
Tejgaon, Dhaka
Tel: 880-2-8128785, 880-2-9138620
Fax: 880-2-8128785 E-mail: bsher@accesstel.net