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Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Thursday human trafficking is like a societal cancer that not only jeopardises the lives of individuals but also the prospects of their families and tarnish the image of the country. Bangladeshis are one of the top ten nationals who crossed the Mediterranean during 2014-2022, and such statistics goes against…
Almost every country has the ‘right to live freely’ as their fundamental right today. However, millions of children and adults are still being exploited for other people’s commercial and personal gains. The United Nations (UN) has shared data confirming that last year around 50 million people were trapped in ‘modern slavery’. The data was released…
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Following the first-ever International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) meeting last week, UN member states have endorsed a 13-page declaration to ramp up efforts on safe migration. The UN General Assembly has also been urged to endorse the declaration in the coming months. Safe migration policies that are rooted in the protection of migrants’ human and…
Dhaka, Bangladesh 13 May 2022 – Smuggling networks take advantage of and benefit from the lack of comprehensive legislation on the Smuggling of Migrants (SOM). Due to ill-defined and weak legislation, smugglers exploit existing loopholes and often operate with relative impunity. As far as smugglers are concerned, they are providing a service that is in…
“Trafficking in persons is a vile crime that feeds on inequalities, instability and conflict,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement, adding that traffickers “profit from peoples’ hopes and despair,” explaining that women and children are particularly vulnerable. According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking (ICAT), more than…
Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, and Urmila Boola, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, said in a statement that they were “gravely concerned” about the bill as presented by the Government to the Indian Parliament last week. “Its focus on addressing trafficking from a criminal law perspective is not sufficiently complemented…
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