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Bangladesh, Pakistan, India among top 14 emigration nations

Says Iftekhar

BSS, Dhaka
Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury yesterday said that according to recent World Bank figures, the number of emigrants from South Asia reached 11.2 million, which accounts for some 0.8 percent of its population, and a staggering 45.3 percent of them are women migrants.
He was speaking at the inaugural session of the 'Regional Dialogue on Implementation of International Instruments on Protecting Rights of Migrant Workers'atacityhotel.
International Organisation of Migrants (IOM) in association with UNIFEM organised the seminar.
Adviser forWomen and Children Affairs Rasheda K Chowdhury, UNIFEM Regional Programme Manager (Migration) Masud H Siddique and IOM South Asian Regional Representative Rabab Fatima also spoke at the meeting.
Government delegates and members of the civil society from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka are attending the dialogue.
The foreign adviser said population movement has always been a significant phenomenon in South Asia, but in recent years this area emerged as key migration centric region.
Dr Chowdhury said that India,
Bangladesh and Pakistan figure as the top 14 emigration countries of the world.
"India is now the highest remittance receiving country in the world, with Bangladesh and Pakistan coming in close behind at 11th and 12th positions," he added.
He said in Bangladesh alone, the number of migrants exceeded 800,000 at the end of2007 with more than 100% growth from the previous year.This scenario maybe one that many of the countries of the region will find comparable, he said.
The adviser said that South Asia stands very strong on the global front on labour migration.
South Asia has a very good record of enforcing most of the important international instruments, he added.
However, it is quite an irony that the instrument most relevant to this region, the 'International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members their Families' has not been ratified by any of the countries of the region, except for Sri Lanka, which is the only Saarc state to have ratified the convention.
“We, in Bangladesh, are seriously examining the convention for ratification and to enact the necessary enabling legislation at an early opportune time," he added.