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International Migrants Day Today

IOM for more financial aid for climate refugees

Staff Correspondent
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has called for additional financial assistance for the developing countries to tackle climate change-induced migration of people, which is likely to accelerate in the coming days,
"Financial support to address the migration-* related consequences of climate change must not be to the detriment of development assistance which has already been hit by the economic crisis. Support has to be additional if developing countries are to build their resilience to the humanitarian impact," said IOM Director General William Lacy Swing in a statement yesterday.
The call came as the International Migrants Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe today when the world leaders will attend the final
day of the UN's Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to consider signing up to a global deal on climate change.
The government in collaboration with NGOs has also drawn up elaborate programmes to observe the day with the theme 'Migrants' rights, security and justice are our commitment'.
In the statement released from Geneva, IOM said Copenhagen conference may not acknowledge climate change impacts on migration, but the reality is that it is already triggering both internal and cross-border migration. In particular, it is the world's poorest countries that are bearing the brunt.
Studies say millions of people of the coastal areas of Bangladesh will be climate refugees because of sea level rise.
At a press conference organised by the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and
Overseas Employment yesterday, Secretary Elias Ahmed said people's migration could be an effective tool to tackle negative impacts of climate change.
About 65 lakh Bangladeshis are now working abroad, but there are serious questions about their sustainable development, as the migrants frequently complain of being cheated both by the agents and employers.
Director General of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training Khorshed Alam Chowdhury, however, said the government is taking steps to protect them from being cheated.
Prof Dr CR Abrar of Dhaka University demanded more budgetary allocation for management of labour migration and formation of a taskforce to investigate why Malaysia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia stopped hiring workers from Bangladesh.