16 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment
in bits of me Tags: Bangladesh, Future of youth, manual labours, World Bank Essay Competition 2010, World Bank International Video Submission 2010, Youth, Youth Unemployment, Youth Unemployment in Bangladesh
Let’s Build Our Future Together
My entry in World Bank Essay Competition!
I know it’s very lame, I just wanted to try.
Plight of Bangladeshi migrant workers
02 Mar 2010 3 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Bahrain, Bangladeshi migrants workers, Malaysia, migrant workers, MigrantRights, remittances, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and other parts of the world have neglected and mistreated migrant workers without being given the basic human rights.
Around 90,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers live and work in Bahrain, 10 per cent of the total population of that country. In the year 2006-07, these migrants sent $80 million in remittances home. But the recent murder of a Bahraini man by a Bangladeshi worker has sparked angry reactions from government officials and politicians. The Bahrain government has put a ban on recruitment of any further ‘untrained’ workers from Bangladesh. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Malaysia had already put restrictions on Bangladeshi laborers, sparked by earlier incidents. As often highlighted at seminars, foreign remittance is the second highest foreign currency earner for Bangladesh. But indifference from our embassies, corrupt middlemen, flawed immigration policies, lack of a strong government response and disparities in labor laws have placed hard-working men and women in international news headlines for the wrong reasons.
