Meeting of this committee was held on
12 July 2021. Dr. Kamal Uddin
Ahmed, Full Time Member, NHRCB
and Chair of the Committee presided
over the meeting. Shamim Ahmed
Chowdhury,
General
Secretary,
BAIRA; Nurul Islam, Former DG,
BMET, Binoy Krishna Mallik,
Executive Director, Rights Jessore,
Merina Sultana, Director-Program,
RMMRU, Sheili Sharmin, Director
Americas, Foreign Ministry, Professor
Ishrat Shamim, Executive Director,
CWCS, Shariful Hasan, Head of
Migration, Brac; Mazharul Islam,
DIG-Immigration,
SB,
Police
Headquarters, Mohammad Shahriar
Alam, SS Immigration (Admin);
Ruhul Kuddus, Deputy Secretary,
Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and
Overseas
Employment,
Farida
Yasmin, Director, Foreign Ministry
were present at the meeting.
Following decisions were taken in the
meeting: (1) A Survey will be done to identify
the causes of internal migration
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
and way forward funded by
UNDP or NHRC.
A Survey may be conducted to
identify
the
reasons
for
harassment of migrants and way
forward.
Letter
will
be
sent
to
government’s
concerned
authority to resend those returnee
migrants who lost jobs due to
covid-19.
Letter will be sent to the Ministry
of Law, Justice and Parliamentary
Affairs to form Courts in human
trafficking prone areas.
A survey will be done to identify
problems faced by the migrants
and recommendations will be sent
accordingly.
A survey will be done to identity
steps that could be taken to
prevent human trafficking.
Letter will be sent to Ministry of
Foreign Affairs to prepare
detailed answer of TIP Report.
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