Arafat Hasan of DOT
Noted human rights activist Sultana Kamal has pledged that rights defenders will continue to be vocal unless rights of the oppressed people are ensured.
“Our voice will not be stopped before that. I can stress this out,” she said while addressing a roundtable discussion in the capital yesterday afternoon organized by the Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum.
During the discussion, titled “Situation of Child Domestic Worker and Human Rights: Protection, Challenges and Way Forward”, and held at The Daily Star Centre, Sultana Kamal claimed that the government did not give priority to the rights of child domestic workers despite concerns.
She criticized that the official law is still very lax in this regard, which she alleges is because domestic workers face challenges from the well-off classes.
“Either we have subconsciously established in our minds that we will not do it or we do not do it consciously because we have to save a certain group.”
“This is where rights defenders raise their voices.”