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Set up regional platform to tackle problems in labour migration

Speakers tell int'l symposium

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at an international symposium yesterday called for stoppage of trading on work visas and discouraging outsourcing practices associated with abuses of migrant labourers and high cost of findingoverseasjobs.
They also suggested promoting further cooperation between labour sending and receiving countries to curb undercover practices and establishing a regional platform for regular dialogue on problems in labour migration process.
The recommendations were made at the time when excessive cost of finding overseas jobs and fraud lead to slave-like labour.
At the closing session of the two-
day symposium at a city hotel, Manolo Abella, chief technical adviser of ILO/EU Asian Programme on the governance of labour migration, said the symposium suggested reducing middlemen between the employers and workers.
ILO and the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment organised the programme in cooperation with EU and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
The government and nongovernment representatives from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea and Sri Lanka attended the programme with Expatriates'Welfare Secretary Abdul Matin Chowdhury in the
chair.
Presenting the recommendations, Manolo Abella said the speakers recommended developing a code of conduct for recruiting agencies in the Saarc countries and involvement of social partners at the national and international levels in migration policy development and its implementation.
He further said labour sending and receiving countries should review policies, laws and regulations in the light of the evolving development in the global labour market to ensure that they remain effective to protect the rights of migrant workers.
On female migration, the speakers suggested developing gendersensitivelabour migration policies, removing discriminatory rules and
strengthening capacity of the diplomatic missions in terms of personnel, funds and logistics to look after the well-being of migrant workers.
They also suggested negotiating bilateral agreements between the labour sending and receiving countries and encouraging tripartite international cooperation to protect the rights of the female migrants.
"Establish a system for tracking early/premature termination of contracts of migrant workers," Abella said, adding that the experts recommended involvement of multinationals in promoting equal and fair treatment of migrant workers and participation of private sectors in the Global Forum on Migration and Development.