6 May 2021 (ILO) This year, specific media coverage of the
impact of COVID-19 on labour migration and fair recruitment, including contributions of migrant care workers, will be viewed favourably, as well as stories about
migrant domestic workers to mark celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189).
The competition is open to both professional and student journalists. The winners will be selected by a panel of experts in international migration and journalism, based on creativity, accuracy and balance, protection of migrants, and positive portrayal of labour migration (
How to enter
either a ‘professional’
or ‘student’ entrant. You can submit your piece in the following formats: written press, photo essay, multimedia, podcast, video and/or radio. Students are allowed to submit a published or unpublished media piece. See the full Terms and Conditions for details.
Kafala’s Pakistani Victims
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Controversial labor laws in Saudi Arabia are designed to make it harder for laborers to find alternate employment.
Earlier this month, prompted by media reports, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed over 8,500 Pakistani migrants were stranded in Saudi Arabia after their employers shuttered constructions projects and halted their salaries. But while Islamabad has pledged to provide monetary assistance to the economic migrants, it is refusing to take up the issue that helped create this crisis: the controversial
kafala system.
“It is primarily the responsibility of the companies involved to provide these workers with food rations,” a spokesman for the foreign affairs ministry told
‘Create funds for reintegration of migrants who returned due to pandemic’
Say parliamentarians of different Asian countries
Representational image of Bangladeshi migrant workers. File Photo: Reuters
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Parliamentarians of different Asian countries today suggested to create funds and launch financial instruments to ensure sustainable reintegration of migrant workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Pointing towards migrant workers immense contribution for the development of both the countries of origin and destination, they called for forming regional forums to address issues related to returnee reintegration.
They came up with the suggestions during the concluding session of the two-day International Conference on Reintegration of Returnee Migrants Affected by Covid-19 Pandemic .
Over Tk 140cr disbursed as loans to returnee migrant workers: Expats welfare minister
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The Probashi Kalyan Bank has so far disbursed over Tk 140 crore from the Tk 700 crore special reintegration loan for migrant workers returning amid the coronavirus pandemic, Expatriates Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said today.
The amount disbursed between July and December, 2020 was only about Tk 12 crore. However, disbursement picked up pace between January and March this year when loans of around Tk 130 crore were disbursed, the minister told the inaugural ceremony of a two-day international conference on the reintegration of returnee migrants.