The sexual harassment of industrial workers: strategies for intervention in the workplace and beyond

It is now widely recognised that there is a need to take the scope of the population policy in Bangladesh beyond the confines of merely achieving population stabilisation through reduction of fertility. Although in recent years the approach to reduction of fertility has changed from narrow family planning to a broad based reproductive health approach, it is being increasingly felt that Bangladesh’s population policy should encompass other equally important issues which have wide implications for the development process and the quality of life of people of Bangladesh. To address some of the related pertinent issues the Centre for Policy Dialogue initiated a programme which aimed at undertaking a series of studies covering the broad area of Population and Sustainable Development. The major objective of these studies was to enhance national capacity to formulate and implement population and development policies and programmes in Bangladesh, and through close interaction with the various stakeholder groups, to promote advocacy on critical related issues. This programme, which was implemented by the CPD between 1999 and 2002 addressed, inter alia, such issues as population dynamics and population momentum and their implications for education and health services, the nexus between population correlates, poverty an