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More than 100,000 job offers have poured in at the Bangladesh mission offices in Jeddah and Riyadh since the Saudi government’s declaration of the general amnesty on May 10.

Muscat - The Kafala system, followed in GCC countries, will be focus of the two-day International Migrant Workers’ Conference, to be organised by Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, in Dhaka, Bangladesh from February 26.

The Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies’, or Baira’s, flat-out refusal to accept the proposed Overseas Employment and Migrant Workers’ Act, which aims to stratify the manpower business and protect migrant workers against irregular and unethical practices, is suspiciously obstructive.

Sixty-one Bangladeshis, who were in Sri Lankan detention camps for four months after being picked up by that country’s navy in February, were scheduled to be brought back from Colombo around Sunday noon.

Bangladesh immigration authorities are not very strict about following rules and regulations on labour immigration, observed a team that recently visited the Philippines.

Female Bangladeshi migrant workers are tortured and sexually harassed while working as maids abroad in countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

Middlemen in Malaysia are luring Bangladeshi migrants there to switch from their present jobs in the plantation sector to other categories of companies

Bangladesh might lose access to the labour market in Oman just like in Malaysia if workers continue to stay there illegally.