29 January 2015, The Financial Express It is a welcome piece of news that the Saudi Arabia has decided to reopen its labour market for local jobseekers after a seven-year ban on manpower recruitment from Bangladesh. The country’s overall manpower export started declining significantly when the Saudi authorities brought allegations of anomalies in the recruitment […]
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21 January 2015, The Daily Star The Saudi Arabian government yesterday decided to sign agreements with labour-exporting countries including Bangladesh for recruiting foreign workers “The draft agreements for the recruitment of workers will be signed between the Ministry of Labour and its counterparts in other countries,” reported Arab News quoting Saudi Culture and Information Minister
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19 January 2015, Arab News A seven-member Bangladesh team, headed by Minister for Expat Welfare and Overseas Employment Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, arrived on an official visit to the Kingdom on Sunday. The minister will hold talks on labor issues with his Saudi counterpart Adel Fakeih on Monday. On arrival at the King Khaled International Airport, the
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5 January 2015, Kafa (Enough) Violence & Exploitation, Lebanon Prepared by Kafa (Enough) Violence & Exploitation, Lebanon, this video is based on a report that examines the processes and practices pertaining to the recruitment of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) from Nepal and Bangladesh and explores their work and living conditions in Lebanon. Click here for
25 November 2014, Global Construction Review Doha’s success in winning the 2019 World Athletics Championship was unexpected – the US city of Eugene, in Oregon, was favourite. What was more predictable was that the victory would be the signal for another chorus of calls for Qatar to do more to safeguard the welfare of its
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18 November 2014, The Daily Star Migration experts and development activists yesterday laid emphasis on strong coordination among government and recruiting agencies and employers to ensure female migrants’ rights. A section of Bangladeshi female migrants everyday face different forms of workplace abuse, primarily physical and sexual, and are exploited either by employers or recruiting agents,
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17 November 2014, The Daily Star Languishing in Iraqi city with insufficient food, water; ambassador says they might be sent back soon. The 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers who claim to have been abducted by some locals are still passing their days in misery inside an old building in Najaf city of Iraq. The Bangladeshis were
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6 November 2014, Daily Express KOTA KINABALU: Indonesian workers are still the preferred workforce based on the experience of oil palm industry players in West Malaysia. East Malaysia Planters Association (Empa) Chairman Datuk Othman Walat said however, the association has no objection to any of its members trying out Bangladeshi workers in their plantation. “In
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