Bangladesh’s migrant workers endure exploitation at home and abroad.

The Bangladesh government has taken some major policy and regulatory initiatives for better migration governance.

Bangladeshi migrant workers require a range of services and support at both the origin and destination ends.

Unskilled or low-skilled workers are often involved in risky, difficult, and laborious jobs in the scorching heat. Apart from the unforgiving heat, work hours reaching 12 to 18 hours,

There has been no national inquiry into why so many migrants die of brain stroke or heart attacks at such young age.

When celebrations were underway at the city's Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC) on International Migrants' Day yesterday, Rimon Hossain was waiting at the Dhaka airport for his father to pick him up.

UN Member States gathered in Morocco on December 10-11 to adopt the Global Compact for Migration (GCM). The GCM is the first intergovernmental agreement to cover all dimensions of international migration. It promises to improve the lives of the world's 258 million migrants, their families and communities.

Having faced abuses, at least 50 Bangladeshi women and 75 men returned home from Saudi Arabia on December 10—a historic day when the governments from across the globe signed a non-legally binding Global Compact on Migration in Marrakech, Morocco.

Luring jobseekers to work independently and earn more abroad, brokers charge them high recruitment fees to have “free visas”.