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Although Bangladesh has seen a rise in overseas jobs over the years, in majority of the districts, international labour migration is quite low, largely due to lack of recruiting activities in those regions.

There is hardly any positive news about our female migrant workers employed in the Middle East or those who have returned home from there.

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons Today Low conviction rate encouraging perpetrators Rajib Kanti Roy 29th July, 2021 10:02:39 PM A large number of migrants are falling victims to human trafficking every year but the low conviction rate in trafficking cases is encouraging the traffickers to continue such evil acts in the country. Victims and migration sector experts have blamed slow pace of investigation and trial for poor rate of conviction. In such a situation, World Day Against Traffic...

417 Returnee Migrant Workers: Nearly half of them remain jobless Study shows 98pc of them are in stress due to unemployment, inadequate income File photo Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent A survey by Brac Migration Programme has found that 47.23 percent of 417 returnee migrants do not have any income source now. As a result, the returnees are living their daily life depending on family earnings, loans, and support from relatives. The report says 52.77 percent of the 417 respondents to ...

Remittance rises 35pc in 9 months Remittances sent by migrant workers and non-resident Bangladeshis rose 35 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, hitting $18.60 billion in total. In March alone, migrants remitted $1.91 billion from different countries, up 50 per cent from a year ago, the highest growth since last August, showed data from Bangladesh Bank. Remittance inflow, one of the main barometers of the economy, dipped from March to May of 2020 in the wak...

Rehabilitate female returnee migrants Star file photo During the Covid-19 pandemic, the unfair treatment of Bangladeshi migrant workers in host countries was frequently in the spotlight—whether it was the detention of unregistered workers in unsafe facilities, their lack of access to proper healthcare and nutrition after forced redundancies, or their mass deportation back to Bangladesh, all the while facing wage theft and great uncertainty over future prospects of employment. According to dat...

50,000 female migrants returned during pandemic Says Brac data There are an estimated 67 million domestic workers in the world, 80 percent of whom are women and 11.5 million of whom are migrants. Photo: AFP/Munir Uz Zaman Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent About 49,924 female migrant workers returned home from 21 countries amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Brac Migration Programme. Besides, at least 487 bodies of female migrant work...

49,924 female migrant workers return home from 21 countries amid Covid-19 pandemic: Brac migration programme There are an estimated 67 million domestic workers in the world, 80 percent of whom are women and 11.5 million of whom are migrants. Photo: AFP/Munir Uz Zaman Star Digital Report Star Digital Report About 49,924 female migrant workers returned home from 21 countries amid the coronavirus pandemic, Brac Migration Programme said. On the other hand...

Bangladeshi migrant workers who returned home from Libya on Wednesday went through severe hardship as their livelihoods were hampered due to economic uncertainty and deterioration of law and order. The migrants, who returned voluntarily, faced dearth of income opportunities as the North African country was torn by a bloody war. The 148 Bangladeshis landed in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a special flight Wednesday morning. They returned with the help of International Organisation fo...

A court in Saudi Arabia has handed down death penalty to a Saudi woman and gave different sentences to her husband and son in the case over the murder of Bangladeshi migrant worker Abiron Begum. Abiron's employer Ayesha al-Jizani, the main accused in the case, was sentenced to death on Sunday for killing the female worker "with a motive", according to a report of Bangladesh