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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 Trafficking in Persons will be observed today across Bangladesh. On May 1 in 2015, a mass grave of migrants...
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 the survey have somehow managed work. Of them, 24.19 percent are working in agriculture, 22.33 perce...
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 wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Inflow rebounded in June and its upward trend continued as hundi, an ...