women migrant workers

125 Women migrant workers: Most returned home with dire illnesses

Rahima (not her real name) left Bangladesh for Oman to work as a domestic help and support her five-member family after her husband passed away.
18 December 2024, 18:27 PM

When search for a livelihood ends in abuse and death

On October 24, Abiron Begum’s family members received her dead body in a coffin from the Shahjalal International Airport.
30 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Our women migrant workers must be protected

Try as we might to reconcile the two trends in Bangladesh's development story, one consistently positive and the other indicative of a lack of distributive justice, we may fail to make the pieces of the puzzle fit, and therefore, marvel at it as a “miracle” development.
27 September 2018, 18:00 PM

TIB slams inertia of government

The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday expressed deep concern over the return of several hundred female migrant
1 July 2018, 18:00 PM

South Asian Women in Middle East: Work contracts do little to deter abuse

Hundreds of thousands of South Asian women migrant workers in the Middle East have signed employment contracts that they do not understand or do not adequately protect them against discrimination and abuse, says a new report.
21 December 2017, 18:00 PM