Source: www.weforum.org Migration policy is at the top of global political agenda. More than 1 million people have tried to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe in the past two years. This has been largely caused by the displacement of people from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, and also North Africa. The European Union adopted the EU resettlement scheme in September 2015, which proposed the resettlement of 160,000 asylum-seekers

Source: www.dhakatribune.com   Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained five people for their alleged involvement in taking Bangladeshis hostage in Libya. RAB Legal and Media Wing Assistant Director Senior ASP Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyam confirmed it to Dhaka Tribune on Sunday afternoon. He said: “The detainees took ransom from the family members through bkash after taking the Bangladeshis hostage. “Of the detainees, two are Libya expatriates.”

Source: bdnews24.com ঢাকা: ২০১৭ সালে বাংলাদেশ থেকে এক মিলিয়ন বা ১০ লাখ শ্রমিক বিদেশে পাঠানো হবে বলে জানিয়েছেন জনশক্তি, কর্মসংস্থান ও প্রশিক্ষণ ব্যুরোর (বিএমইটি) মহাপরিচালক সেলিম রেজা।শনিবার

Source: bdnews24.com ঢাকা: বিদেশগামী কর্মীদের মিথ্যা আশ্বাস, চুক্তি অনুযায়ী কাজ না দেওয়া এবং অধিক টাকা গ্রহণ করলে রিক্রুটিং এজেন্সি ও মধ্যসত্ত্বভোগীদের কোনো ধরনের ছাড় না দেওয়ার জন্য

Source: nation.com.pk ISLAMABAD: Nearly 250,000 Pakistanis have been deported, mostly from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates over the past three years, the Federal Investigation Agency statistics revealed on Saturday. According to the Labour Migration from Pakistan: 2015 Status Report’ through Deportation Statistics, a total of 242,817 irregular Pakistani migrants have been deported between 2012 and 2015. The largest number of deportations,

Source: The Daily Star The government and the host countries should identify the real causes behind the deaths of Bangladeshi migrant workers who die at young ages, speakers said today. “More than 3,500 bodies of Bangladeshi migrant workers are reached home every year from different countries, but the causes of their deaths are not identified properly,” said Faruque Ahmed, secretary general of Welfare Association for the Rights of Bangladeshi

Source: The Independent “All persons are entitled to possess one nationality but one nationality only,” declared the League of Nations in 1930. There is nothing original about this statement. In fact, it simply reiterated the dominant international perspective of the 19th century and most of the 20th century. The norm of the past centuries was that the citizens of a territory who ventured out or were forced out, took up the citizenship of their

Source: bdnews24.com স্থানীয় সময় শনিবার সকালে নেদারল্যান্ডস প্রবাসী বাংলাদেশিরা ও নবায়নযোগ্য শক্তির পক্ষে আন্দোলনকারী সংগঠন 'কিয়েস ফুর গ্রুন এনার্জি' যৌথভাবে এ সাইকেল র‍্যালি ও সমাবেশ

Source: www.bbc.com/bengali গত বছর কাজের উদ্দেশ্যে বাংলাদেশ থেকে ২৫ জন শ্রমিক আফগানিস্তানের হেরাত প্রদেশে যান। যে প্রতিষ্ঠানের কর্মী হয়ে তারা হেরাতে গিয়েছিলেন, সেই প্রতিষ্ঠানটি তারা যাবার

27 October, 2016;BURO Bangladesh Conference Hall, Dhaka.   Speakers at a Dialogue on ‘Migration, Diaspora, Remittance and Development: Looking ahead of GFMD 2016’ held in Dhaka on 27 October 2016 underscored the need for an effective engagement of the Diasporas in the development of their countries of origin. They at the same time said, diasporas need to be engaged with the local governments and the public sector in their destination countries