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Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program (OKUP)Country: BangladeshCity / Suburb: DhakaMission / brief description:OKUP is a community based migrant workers’ organization. Believing in that the unity of migrant workers enhances their empowerment and contributes to the protection of their rights and dignity, OKUP came up as a platform of returnee migrant workers in 2004.
In OKUP, we operate on the principle of human rights first, gender justice, child protection, and non-discrimination.
Our mission:
To bring migrants’ voices and perspectives in the migration discourse, policy formulation and implementation of the migrant friendly laws
Our mandates:
promote informed migration by choice
safeguard rights, wellbeing and justice of labour migrants as well as climate migrants and survivors
espouse sustainable reintegration and livelihoods of returnees and climate induced youth and women
bring the voice and the perspectives of migrants and climate induced communities by creating agency and empowerment
promote evidence-based research and policy advocacy at different levelsMain activities: Activism, Advocacy, Children, Climate, Climate action, Communication, Community development, Development aid, Diversity, Education, Employment, Environment, Environmentally sustainable, Equality, Feminism, Gender, Gender equity, Health, Legal, Migrant, Rights, Social, Social justice, Social movement, Social services, Volunteering, Wellbeing, WomenType of organization: NGO (Non Governmental Organisation), Not-For-ProfitScope: NationalEmail: omar.okup@gmail.comPhone: +88001842773300Website: https://www.okup.org.bd