A total of 337 Bangladeshis, who were evacuated from war-torn Yemen last week, returned home from the Indian state of Kerala in the early hours of Sunday. Two special flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carried them home. The first flight…
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337 stranded Bangladeshis in Yemen to reach Dhaka 18 April
A total of 337 Bangladeshi nationals who were stranded in Yemen are expected to reach Indian Sea Port Kochi, Kerala on Saturday morning, said a Foreign Ministry official in Dhaka. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is arranging for their onward…
360 Bangladeshis taken from Yemen to Djibouti
Ten more Bangladesh nationals returned home on Saturday evening from war-torn Yemen through Djibouti, raising the total number of returnees to 21. They arrived in a Fly Dubai flight that landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:45pm, said an…
Maldives threatens migrant workers with expulsion over protest
Jason Burke in Delhi and Zaheena Rasheed in Malé Tens of thousands of immigrant workers employed on luxury resorts in theMaldives have been told they will be ordered to leave the island nation if they go ahead with a planned…
Value our labor and rights as domestic workers
Eni Lestari Hong Kong, March 31 Last month I was selected to speak at the UN to discuss the content of the sustainable development goals. As a child, I couldn’t dream of even visiting the UN. But nor did I…
Job opportunities of disabled people stressed
Speakers, including human rights activists, lawyers and professionals,at a meeting here have stressed for creating and ensuring job opportunities for the physically challenged people to make them self-reliant.
Migrant workers’ rights abuses at Saadiyat Island, UAE
New York – Serious concerns about workers’ rights have not been resolved for a high-profile project in Abu Dhabi that will host branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums and a campus of New York University (NYU), Human Rights Watch…
Deal for manpower export to Saudi Arabia signed
The government on Tuesday signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia over sending Bangladeshi workers to the Gulf country under 12 categories. The deal was singed 10 days after the Saudi government reopened its manpower market for Bangladeshi jobseekers lifting a…
Qatar can still take lead on migrant worker changes
Doha – Qatari authorities should implement labor reforms to protect migrant workers from serious human rights abuses; proposed reforms in 2014 are a welcome step but need to go further, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2015.…
7 bodies recovered from sunken trawler in Cox’s Bazar
Rescuers on Friday recovered 7 bodies from inside the sunken trawler, which was heading towards Malaysia yesterday with over 50 passengers on board, in Khudiratek area under Kutubdia upazila in the Bay of Bengal, police and locals said. Superintendent of…
Dozens missing after Bangladesh migrant boat sinks
Dozens of people are missing after an overloaded fishing trawler carrying migrants to Malaysia sank in strong currents off the coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, officials said. Emergency workers rescued 43 Bangladeshis in the Bay of Bengal after the boat…
Gulf Arab states having unified database on migrants
Expatriates blacklisted in any Gulf Cooperation Council nation could be banned from all the member countries, if a law gets the nod this May. A unified immigration database, aimed at helping member countries keep track of criminal record of expatriates…
Voting right a major gain for India’s migrant workers
A bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and A K Sikri of the Indian Supreme Court asked India’s central government to inform it about “further steps taken to implement the suggestions” for extending voting rights to non-resident Indians. This…
From the American dream to the nightmare of deportation
By Edgardo Ayala San Salvador, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Julio César Cordero’s American dream didn’t last long. He was trying to reach Houston, Texas as an undocumented immigrant but was detained in Acayucán in southeastern Mexico. And like thousands of…
Syrians entering Lebanon face new restrictions
New restrictions on Syrians entering Lebanon have come into effect, further slowing the flow of asylum seekers trying to escape the war. Previously, travel between the two countries was largely unrestricted, but now Syrians will have to obtain a visa.…
GCC domestic work reform falls short once again
Mehru and Cyrus Vesuvala Contrary to initial GCC media statements confirming the adoption of new model contract for domestic workers, sources say no new changes were discussed at the November 2014 meeting The media fanfare surrounding the meeting of GCC…
Traffickers ‘made $3m’ on ship to Italy
Police in Italy believe traffickers made some $3m (£1.9m; €2.5m) from 359 illegal migrants found abandoned on a cargo ship in the Mediterranean. The Ezadeen was towed into the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro after being found by coast guards…
2 Bangladeshi workers killed in Malaysia building mishap
Two Bangladesh workers have been killed after being trapped in wet concrete following the collapse of a floor being levelled at an LRT terminal construction site in Putra Heights near Petaling Jaya in Malaysia. The bodies of the workers were…
40-day employment generation programme begins in Joypurhat
The first phase of 40-day employment programme of the government began in the five Upazilas of the district on December 18 for hard-core poor, seasonal unemployed and destitute people.
End exploitation for domestic workers in the Gulf
Rothna Begum “I would wake up to start cooking, then cleaning, washing clothes, and then cooking again. No rest, there was just no rest… Because she kept yelling, I cried and asked to go back to [the recruitment] agency, but…
Population dynamics and climate compatible development
Experts provide recommendations to improve access to family planning for climate compatible development Washington, D.C.- Policymakers and others working to slow human-caused climate change and make societies more resilient to its impacts should consider potential contributions to that effort from…
Undocumented migrants, not ‘illegal migrants’
On the occasion of International Migrants’ Day, migrants’ rights advocates from across Europe urge media, policymakers and others who have a key role in influencing public views on migration to stop using ‘illegal migrant’ and adopt accurate and neutral terms…
Javan migrant workers’ advocate wins rights award
Migrant workers’ rights activist Anis Hidayah received the 2014 Yap Thiam Hien human rights award for being “the voice for millions of Indonesian migrant workers”, as described by the award committee. One of the judges, lawyer and human rights activist…
Malaysia no new market, Govt fails to increase manpower export: BNP
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that the government has failed to increase manpower export since it could not deal with the matter properly “Not only in Malaysia, the government has failed to export manpower…
Want govt 2 govt manpower export to Malaysia: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government would promote G2G basis manpower export to Malaysia to ensure greater benefit of the workers, despite the fact that a section of manpower exporters are not pleased with the decision. Addressing a reception…
‘Increase migrant worker protection in Gulf countries’
Kuwait, November 22 – Labour ministers from Gulf and Asian countries meeting on November 26 and 27 next, should improve labour law protection, reform abusive immigration policies, and increase dialogue with trade unions and nongovernmental groups, 22 human rights organizations…
Inter-country commission to stop illegal migration urged
Refugee and Migratory Movement Research Unit (RMMRU), a Dhaka University institute, on Saturday recommended the creation of an inter-country commission for taking effective actions to stop illegal migration from Bangladesh to Malaysia via Thailand. The research unit came up with…
Bd Navy seizes Burmese ferry with 625 trafficked people
Bangladesh Navy on Monday seized a Myanmar flag hoistng trawler in the deep see with at least 625 people on board, including many Myanmar nationals, heading towards Malaysia illegally. A source at the Naval Headquarters said that the trawler was…
80 Bangladeshi immigrants detained in Malaysia
Police detained 80 illegal immigrants, believed to have been working at a construction site in Cameron Highlands here, during two separate raids on two houses in Tringkap and Blue Valley, Kampung Raja on Wednesday. Cameron Highlands district police chief DSP…
Maternity allowance distributed among mothers in Sundarganj
Department of Women Affairs (DWA) distributed Tk 6.93 lakh asmaternity allowance to 330 poor mothers of Sundarganj upazila in the district for the first six-month of 2013-2014 fiscal.