Immigrant women workers
A joint research report of UNDP & a private organisation portrays that the women workers abroad find themselves in a very miserable and pathetic condition. According to that research report, approximately 1,00000 immigrant female workers are working in foreign countries mostly in the Middle East to support their families. They work there as domestic helper. But it is an issue of great concern that most of them, to be exact 85% of domestic workers, are the victims of physical torture & oppression by their employers. Moreover, 20% of them are being harassed sexually. As they are unaware of the labour law they are being tormented by the employers. They do not get any legal protection there. Therefore, they are compelled to bear with the oppression. Apart from this, the recruiting agency or the brokers through whom they go abroad as 'domestic helper' are not sending them under any written contract.
According to the researcher of that report, only Bangladesh embassy can save them from such oppression. They even do not know the address of Bangladesh embassy building. It is the responsibility of the government to look into the matter seriously.
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