Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Mohammad Ziauddin has said Bangladesh is always proactive with Myanmar to repatriate Rohingya refugees and stop further influx but unfortunately the resolution of the problem is still awaited. The Ambassador said the systematic push-on…
A team of Border Guard of Bangladesh went to Myanmar on Wednesday morning to bring back 155 Bangladeshis who were recently rescued from Myanmar sea territory. The flag meeting began between BGB and Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) began along…
Misconceptions about climate-induced migration could lead to inadequate support for affected populations, according to the Worldwatch Institute’sState of the World 2015 Washington, D.C.-Between 2008 and 2013, some 140 million people were displaced by weather-related disasters; meanwhile, gradual displacements, such as…
Om Astha Rai Nepal is preparing to stop sending migrant workers to work in countries where employers do not pay for their air tickets and visas from 6 July. The host countries have agreed, but ironically it is Nepal’s recruiting…
Manama – A six-month general amnesty for workers staying in Bahrain illegally will begin on Wednesday, a report said. Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) chief executive Ausamah Al Absi announced yesterday that the grace period for undocumented migrant workers will last until…
Annie Gowen Mohammed Islam is a Rohingya Muslim who has lived in a refugee camp in Bangladesh since age 9, after his family fled religious tension in his home country of Burma, also known as Myanmar. His life is one…
As Qatar’s construction sector continues to expand ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the country’s demand for international labour is expected to remain high. Figures published in September 2014 show that the total number of migrant workers living in…
EU leaders holding late-night talks in Brussels have agreed to relocate tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece. Summit chairman Donald Tusk said 40,000 would be relocated to other EU states over the next two…
The number of people displaced by war, conflict or persecution reached a record high of nearly 60 million around the world in 2014, a UN report says. The document by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says the number of people…
By Kanya D’Almeida UN, Jun (IPS) – For a while it went unnoticed: a boatload of migrants here, a vessel full of refugees there. But since 2012, the complex and unregulated movement of human beings through South and Southeast Asia–…
A total of 150 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims who were rescued by Myanmar authorities on May 22 were brought back home from Myanmar on Monday after a flag meeting between the border guards of the two countries. The repatriation process…
Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia — Hundreds of migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers in Southeast Asia have reached land and relative safety in the past two days. But an estimated 6,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar remain trapped in…
Nearly 600 people believed to be Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have been rescued from boats drifting in Indonesian waters. At least two overcrowded boats – with many women and children on board – were towed by local fishermen…
BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon on Sunday alleged that human trafficking marked a sharp rise in the country as the government has failed to generate jobs for the unemployed people. “Most youths are now jobless and they are taking risk of…
Thai authorities on Saturday questioned more than 100 migrants discovered in the country’s south to determine whether they were victims of human trafficking, as Thailand races to meet a deadline to uncover people smuggling camps within its borders. The 117…
BANGKOK (Reuters) – More than 100 suspected Rohingya migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh have been found in Thailand’s southern Songkhla province, police said on Friday. Police said the 111 migrants had been left alone in the jungle after suspected human…
More than 5,800 migrants have been rescued and 10 bodies recovered off the Libyan coast over the weekend, the Italian coastguard says. The survivors were picked up from wooden and rubber boats, in 17 separate operations by Italian and French…
Bill Frelick “Tragic developments” was the apt descriptionby the European Commission of what may prove to be the largest maritime disaster the Mediterranean has seen. But while European officials have been quick with sympathetic words following the capsizing on Saturday…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.…
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 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…