Bangladesh

Bangladesh ratifies Migrant Workers Convention!

Date: 25/08/2011 - 12:13

Effective 24 August 2011, Bangladesh became the 45th state to ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Working Hard for the Money: Bangladesh Faces Challenges of Large-Scale Labor Migration

Date: 18/08/2011 - 07:12

Bangladesh, meaning "Bengal nation," is a low-lying country located on the Bay of Bengal between Burma and India, and has a territory of nearly 57,000 square miles (147,570 square kilometers). Bangladesh emerged as an independent state in 1971, separating itself from Pakistan after nine months of bitter conflict with enormous casualties of Bengali civilians.

Bangladesh to ratify UN Migrant Workers Convention

Date: 12/04/2011 - 07:46

News announced today that the Bangladesh cabinet approved the proposal of ratifying the UN Convention on Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Family Members. Bangladesh signed the convention in 1998, but had not moved to ratify it until now. The Press Secretary said every year Bangladesh is sending about 400,000 workers abroad and at present 7.0 million Bangladeshis are working in different countries.In ratifying the convention this is another move in the right direction to protect migrant domestic workers' rights.

Gender & Development Special Issue on Migration

Date: 06/04/2011 - 08:09

Drawing on insights gained over the 13 years since the journal last published an issue on migration – a period which has seen a gradual ‘feminisation’ of migration, and an increased focus on the benefits that migration can bring to development in the ‘sending’ communities - the March 2011 issue of Gender & Development, brings together research from across a range of countries, and looks at migration not only as a livelihoods strategy, undertaken primarily for economic reasons, but also as a response to crisis, where people have relatively little, or no, option but t

4,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers sneak out of Libya

Date: 28/02/2011 - 09:59

Bangladesh, which has some 60,000 citizens working in Libya, said about 4,000 had reached the Tunisian and Egyptian borders, and 800 had been taken to Crete by their Chinese company.

“The government has not evacuated any Bangladeshi workers so far. But we have all preparations ready if the situation worsens,” Labour Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said yesterday.
He said many workers had lost their passports as the documents had been kept by employers who had now disappeared.

Ratification of the UN Migrants Rights Convention is a Must

Date: 25/10/2010 - 10:13

Experts on migration issues and international human rights law at a seminar urged the government of Bangladesh to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990 before the International Migrants Day to be observed on the upcoming December 18. They, however, said that if the government has any confusion or dilemma with any specific provisions, they could ratify the convention with reservations in a bid to safeguard the rights of Bangladeshi migrant workers.

Bangladesh to speak for Asian migrants

Date: 18/10/2010 - 07:08

Bangladesh wants the Asian labour exporting countries to have a common stance on migrant workers' rights, including a minimum wage ceiling and a reduced cost of migration to the countries, mainly in the Gulf region and Southeast Asia.

Contemplating a concept like this, the government has planned to hold bilateral meetings with the ten other labour exporting Asian countries, said Minister for Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Khandker Mosharraf Hossain.

Bangladesh: Government moves to enter manpower business

Date: 28/06/2010 - 04:56

The government itself will send manpower abroad from now on alongside private recruiting agencies, to reduce excessive cost of labour migration. "The decision comes as previous efforts for reducing labour migration cost have been unsuccessful, " Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Secretary Zafar Ahmed Khan told The Daily Star.

BANGLADESH: Our cheated workers in Libya

Date: 10/01/2010 - 08:53

It is quite clear that for all the steps taken or reassurances voiced regarding the safety of Bangladesh's workers abroad, they still remain prey to the whims of their employers as well as their recruiting agencies. The latest that we have on this front is the disconcerting news from Libya that 46 Bangladeshi workers there have been going without wages for the past six months. And how life can turn into a nightmare for men with no wages abroad can only be imagined.

BOMSA - Bangladeshi Ovibasi Mohila Sramik Association

Date: 08/09/2009 - 09:44

Countries	Asia Bangladesh
Type of organisation	NGO/CSO
Work field	Women Migrant Workers