Bangladeshi migrant workers

Stranded for 7 months

Twenty-five Bangladeshi workers have been stranded in a factory in Afghanistan for over seven months without work and salaries.
9 August 2016

The misery of migrant workers in Malaysia

Reports of Bangladeshi migrant workers falling victim to abuse, mistreatment, fraud and other maltreatment in the hands of their foreign employers are not new.
9 May 2016

Qatar to hire more Bangladeshi workers

Qatar's Prime Minister Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani agrees to increase employing Bangladeshis and provide training and skill building facilities for them.
4 February 2016

Too many migrant worker deaths

A Daily Star report has found that over the last decade the number of Bangladeshi migrant workers who have died abroad of stroke or heart attack has been increasing every year.
1 February 2016

Libya boat sink: 25 survivors return home

Twenty-five Bangladeshis, who survived after two boats capsized off Libyan coast on August 24, return home.
19 September 2015

Protecting the rights of migrant workers

With an aim to protect the rights of Bangladesh's economic migrants by enhancing the capacity of National Human Rights Commission, the UNDP-Bangladesh has recently published a study report titled 'Protecting Migrant Workers from Bangladesh: A Study of Legal Compliance with Migrant Workers' Rights' (2014).
22 June 2015

Iraq returnees demand compensation

Returning empty-handed from Iraq, 19 workers demand compensation and licence cancellation of two recruiting agencies for cheating with them 17 months back.
18 May 2015

Two migrant workers return from Brunei empty-handed

Two migrant workers return from Brunei penniless early today after they were cheated by two Bangladeshi recruiting agencies with the promise of lucrative salaries abroad.
14 May 2015

‘Bangladeshis to be relocated if Libya situation worsens’

The government will relocate Bangladeshi migrant workers to the neighbouring countries from Libya if security situation of North African country worsens further
11 March 2015