Chittagong – Peacempire—funded by 120 Under 40 project—organizes Family Planning Dialogue on June 12 in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. A number of 310 plus participants attended the seminar. The attendees include intermediate students, undergrad students, young parents, community workers,…
Kuwait’s government will begin checking and auditing university degree certificates when expats renew their residency visas, according to reports. Kuwait Times cited sources as confirming the measure, which will come into effect by the end of the month. They said:…
The White House has outlined measures, including funding for a controversial border wall, that US President Donald Trump insists should be part of any new deal on young undocumented immigrants. Mr Trump is also asking to speed up deportations and…
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has allocated SAR 100m ($266.5m) and issued a series of directives with the intention of resolving all cases of unpaid salaries in the kingdom. This follows complaints from hundreds of thousands of workers in the construction…
A law stipulating working conditions for domestic workers, including a regular weekly day off, 30 days of paid annual leave and the right to retain personal documents, was approved by UAE President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan,…
Dhaka, Sept 23 – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 10 Bangladeshi young men from Gatipara border under Benapole Port Police Station while they were being trafficked to India on Friday night.
Under revised rules, employers seeking to hire a housemaid will have to compulsorily declare, among other things, the nature of the job, working hours and weekly day off.
Dhaka – Speaker at a workshop on Monday put emphasis on the need to take coordinated initiative to eliminate child labour within stipulated time in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Demography — the fundamental driver of all economies — is shifting the balance of power in Asia, according to Deloitte’s Voice of Asia report: By 2042 there will be more over-65s in Asia than the populations of the Eurozone and…
Dhaka, Sept 15 (UNB) – People living in poverty around the world are facing increasing multiple threats, including climate change and the global economic crisis, but the political will to tackle the issues is lacking, a United Nations human rights…
Some 1,11,34,211 Bangladeshi workers have gone abroad receiving clearance from Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) till August 29, 2017. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam today disclosed this, whiling replying to a written question from a…
From the Migrant Forum in Asia The Asia Regional Civil Society Consultation (RCSC) on the Global Compact for Safe Orderly and Regular Migration was held in Bangkok on 4-5 August 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Asia RCSC aimed to enable…
Dhaka, Sept 4 – The inward remittance inflow has marked a rise after a declining trend for over one year as the country received $1.4185 billion from the expatriates in August last.
by Aaron Sloan aaron The Asia-Pacific region hosts approximately 14 percent, or 3.5 million, of the world’s 65.3 million forced migrant population.1 Two-thirds of today’s refugee population will be displaced for at least three years, and are often located in…
by Béla Galgóczi The crisis has put an end to wage convergence of the poorer Central and Eastern European new EU member states (EU-11, being: Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia (2004), Bulgaria, Romania (2007) and Croatia (2013))…
Dhaka, Aug 23 – Approximately 87,000 Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMNs) have so far entered Bangladesh following an outbreak of violence on October 9 last year in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.
By Baher Kamal Rome, Aug 21 (IPS) – Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts resulting in devastating droughts and/or floods, extreme weather, destruction of natural resources, in particular lands, soils and…
The UNHCR’s India office said that the principle of not sending back refugees to a place where they face danger was part of international law.
Spain’s coastguard says it has rescued 600 migrants crossing from Morocco in a 24-hour period amid a spike in the number of migrant arrivals.
While rapid population growth may be the defining feature of the 20th century, with world population nearly quadrupling from 1.6 to 6.1 billion, the hallmark of the 21st century is likely to be population aging.The consequences of the population aging…
By Shahiduzzaman Dhaka, Aug 13 (IPS) – Breaking all the social barriers and taboos, poor women in Bangladesh are now engaged in rural development works across the country as labourers.
By IPS World Desk Rome, Aug 11 (IPS) – A total of 300 migrants have reportedly been forced from boats over the past two days by smugglers off the coast of Yemen – many feared dead or missing, the United…
Danielle Nierenberg On the 2017 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The Declaration, formally adopted in 2007, is an international human…
Dhaka – The Nagorik Oikya on Friday accused the government of giving shelter to the rapists. “The incidents of rape are taking place one after another due to a culture of lack of justice. People are being arrested if they…
Dhaka, Aug 3 – Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Thursday said the government has taken an initiative to appoint 10,000 physicians soon through special BCS examinations.
Athens – The number of unaccompanied migrant children held in unsuitable police cells and detention centres in Greece has increased alarmingly, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas.
by Alexandra Scheele Though the two principles “equal pay for equal work” and “equal pay for work of equal value” have been legally fixed with the European Treaty of Rome 1957 as well as with the subsequent Equal Pay Directive…
Dhaka – Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Golam Moshi has called upon the irregular Bangladeshis living in the kingdom to return home, saying that they will not face any problem in coming back in future legally.
A “significant” Brexit transitional period needs to be agreed as soon as possible, to stop jobs being moved from the UK to Europe, according to the boss of Goldman Sachs International. Chief executive Richard Gnodde told the BBC he was…
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 111,148 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 16 July, with almost 85 per cent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided between Greece, Cyprus and Spain. This compares with…