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Centre for Women and Children Studies (CWCS) is a women and child rights organization for encouraging, sponsoring and promoting multidisciplinary basic and action research aimed at burgeoning socio-economic development of women, men and children. The Centre was established in April 1994 to primarily act as a pressure group to lobby with the policy planners and decision-makers.

Our Vision & Mission

VISION
Vision is inclusion of women and children in policy agenda to ensure equality in socio-economic, legal and political spheres leading to distributive justice.
MISSION
Mission is to develop pro-women and child-friendly policy and strategies in Bangladesh and act as an advocacy group to lobby with the policy planners and decision-makers for its implementation in a meaningful way.
Scope of work
  • Conduct research on women and children issues and dissemination of findings to strengthen policies and its implications.
  • Organize workshops, seminars and dialogues among researchers, academicians, policy makers and development practitioners to bridge the gaps in policy and practice.
  • Conduct training programs for socio-economic empowerment of women and children.
  • Impart training for government officials, law enforcing agencies, local government bodies and community people for betterment of women and children.
  • Undertake action-oriented programs to protect women and children from violence and exploitation.
  • Emergency relief and rehabilitation work of disaster affected families, especially women and children.

Our issue based activities

  • Human rights of women and children

    Recognition of women and child rights as human rights. Women and children suffer discrimination in the allocation of economic, social and cultural rights. Women and children lack of awareness of the existence of these rights which are an obstacle that prevents them from fully enjoying their human rights and attaining equality.

  • Women empowerment

    The sustainability of the economic and social empowerment of women depends on the extent of their integration in the political decision-making process. The political participation of women is an indicator through which the extent of the enjoyment of political rights by women is measured. In Bangladesh, it have been realized that without the active participation of women and the incorporation of women’s perspectives at all levels of decision-making, the goals of equality, development, and peace cannot be achieved .

  • Environment and natural disaster

    Women are worst affected by environmental degradation. Women and children are the hardest hit in disasters like cyclones, floods and riverbank erosions, which displaces whole families. Women’s contribution to conservation and management of natural resources and safeguarding the environment to be adequately recognized and addressed by policy-makers.

  • Gender violence

    Violence against women and children are common on the street, in the workplace and in the home. The low social and economic status of women can be both cases and consequences of violence against women. Domestic violence not only causes physical suffering but disrupts women’s lives and is a major obstacle to their individual growth and to their participation in the development process.

  • Trafficking in women and children

    Trafficking in women and children is contemporary slavery when trapped in situations from where they cannot escape. Its underlying cause range from poverty, inferior status of girls and women, erosion of social values and norms to expansion of global market forces and the growing materialism perpetrated by the media. Despite adequate legislation of penalties, trafficking in women and children continues unabated.

  • Women migration

    Women migrant workers who return empty-handed are the most vulnerable. They usually migrate without following the regular procedures. They end up in trapped situation in the destination country and find it difficult to return home. Many of them try to file cases against their employers in destination countries. However, threatened by employers and they withdraw their allegations. On the other hand and recruiting agencies in the sending country but withdraw the cases after out-of-court negotiations. Even though they migrate, their migration falls under the definition of "trafficking."

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