Thrust on protecting migrant workers from traffickers

Expressing frustration over the low conviction rate and prosecution of traffickers in Bangladesh, trade union leaders, labour lawyers and migrant rights activists urged the government on Wednesday to take measures to protect migrant workers from traffickers, reports UNB.

The government has to take tough actions against human traffickers, ensure exemplary punishment for them and justice for the trafficking victims, speakers said at an advocacy meeting on 'Analysis and Application of the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act, 2012' organised by Solidarity Centre- Bangladesh Office at a city hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry Additional Secretary Dr Ahmed Munirus Saleheen was the chief guest at the programme moderated by Solidarity Centre's Senior Programme Officer Dr Lily Gomes.

Saleheen said trafficking in migration has become a big challenge for the country but the government has been working relentlessly to stop trafficking in persons.

Referring to recently adopted Global Compact for Migration, he said the government is working to ensure safe, orderly, regular and responsible migration from Bangladesh in light of the GCM.

The stakeholders of the migration sector have to cooperate with the government to bring down trafficking, he added.