Relatives, HR bodies urge govt

Ensure security of  Bangladeshis in ME

Staff Reporter

 

Several immigration and human rights organisations and the relatives of Bangladeshi workers demanded of the government to take immediate action to ensure the security of the Bangladeshi workers living abroad, particularly in the Middle East countries.

Concern over the security of the Bangladeshi immigrants has spread among the countrymen as many workers living in Libya and their relatives expressed their agony to news media by telephone while some organisations also expressed  it yesterday.  WARBE Development Foundation, an organisation, working to protect the rights of the immigrant workers and their families, yesterday at a press conference urged the government to save the Bangladeshi workers in Libya by shifting them to a safe place.

Chairman of the foundation Syed Saiful Haque addressed the conference, held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity, as the main speaker. He said the government would have to rehabilitate the workers by offering compensation if they were compelled to return home due to anarchic situation in Libya and some other Mid-East countries. He urged the government to ensure the accountability of the Bangladesh missions so that they could cooperate the Bangladeshi immigrants properly.

The conference was told that about seven million Bangladeshi workers had been working abroad, mostly in the Mid-East countries. Though they had been suffering from serious problems including security of their lives and jobs, government had not yet taken any necessary initiative in this regard, the speaker added.

The foundation also demanded of the government to approve the Charter of ‘International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families’ finally that was approved by the United Nations General Assembly earlier in 1990.

Meanwhile, Secretary General of Bangladesh Society for the Enforcement of Human Rights (BSEHR) Advocate Sigma Huda and its Executive Director Advocate Ahammed Ali in a statement on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the suffering of about 50 thousand Bangladeshis, living in Libya.

They urged the government to bring the Bangladeshi workers back home immediately or take them to a safe place from the troubled areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Source: The New Nation - Independent Daily