Prime Minister is going to Switzerland in the morning
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to Switzerland on a three-day visit to attend the World for Work Summit held in Geneva.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage will leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10 am on Tuesday (June 13). The flight is scheduled to land at Geneva International Airport at 5:30pm local time.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR Chief Filippo Grandi will meet the Prime Minister at her residence on June 14. Later, the Prime Minister will meet the President of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset, at the Palais de Nations. Later, there may be a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Bangladesh and Switzerland on knowledge and skills enhancement.
In the afternoon, the Prime Minister is scheduled to address the plenary of the 'World of Work Summit 2023' at the Palais de Nations.
The Prime Minister will be received by the ILO ADG and Regional Director when she arrives there. A red carpet will be laid from the gate to the venue and a guard of honor will be provided.
She will later meet with ILO Director General Gilbert F. Houngbo.
The Prime Minister is expected to attend a dinner hosted by the DG for high-level dignitaries at ILO headquarters in the evening.
On June 15, she is scheduled to attend 'A Talk at the WWF' after a meeting with WWF founder Professor Klaus Schwab at the Prime Minister's World Economic Forum (WWF) office.
There she will address the event titled 'New Economy and Society in Smart Bangladesh' organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In the evening, WTO Director General Dr. Okonjo-Iewala will meet the Prime Minister at her residence. In the evening she will attend a community function.
Sheikh Hasina will leave Geneva International Airport for Dhaka at 11 am (local time) on June 16. She is scheduled to return to Dhaka on June 17.
'The World of Work Summit 2023: Social Justice for All' is a high-level forum for global articulation of the need for greater, coordinated and coherent action in support of social justice.
It will provide an opportunity to discuss and inform proposals to form a global coalition for social justice. The initiative was welcomed by the Governing Body of the International Labor Office at its 347th session.
Several high-level guests will address the conference, including former French President Francois Hollande, former Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi and representatives of employers and workers.
The two-day summit will highlight the key role of social justice in building a more sustainable and equitable world and discuss strategies for enhanced and more coherent collective action to advance social justice and ensure policy coherence.
The conference is a forum for participants to exchange their views and priorities on social justice as well as highlight their actions and commitments to advance social justice.
It is hoped that the outcome of this summit will feed into other multilateral forums such as the Sustainable Development Goals Summit in 2023, the G20 and BRICS summits on strategies to achieve greater social justice.
The summit will be addressed by heads of state and government, the UN Secretary-General, the ILO Director-General and high-level representatives of employers' and workers' organizations.
Four panel discussions will be held with high-level representatives of governments and employers' and workers' organizations, United Nations agencies and other international organizations to identify and expand actions aimed at social justice in the multilateral system and a joint, coherent and coordinated commitment.