High Court and the court delivered the 10 directives to the government including for taking immediate steps to prohibit employment of children up to the age of 12 including employment in the domestic sector, particularly with the view to ensuring that children up to the age of 12 attend school and need to obtain the basic education. To eradicate child/forced labour particularly worst forms of child labour in Bangladesh the Commission has launched several stakeholder’s consultations through its thematic committee on Child Rights. In collaboration with ILO the Commission has conducted several researches to review the existing laws and policies with the aim to reduce child labour. 37. Annually, many workers leave Bangladesh for overseas employment. International labour migration is an integral part of Bangladesh's economy and development since last three decades. An exclusive law governs matters related to migrant workers in the country. The Overseas Employment and Migrants (OEM) Act 2013, emphasizing in its preamble, that it is “expedient and necessary to promote opportunities for overseas employment and establish a safe and fair system of labour migration, to ensure rights and welfare of migrant workers and members of their families”. Per the International Labour Organization, this is the first-ever law on labour migration passed by the Parliament of Bangladesh and one that derives principles from the International Labour Standards and the UN Conventions and recommendations. 38. The Commission welcomes the adoption of Expatriates’ Welfare and Oversees Employment Policy 2016; to ensure good governance and efficient administration relating to migrant workers’ welfare. The policy takes a human-right based approach and follows the CMW. Further, the policy specifically focusses on safe migration of female workers38. It provides for an increase of female staff at the labour wings39 of foreign missions, provide training and capacity building for staff on protection and safety of female migrant workers, monitoring of workplaces and required legal, counselling, health and financial advice to the female migrant workers. The Commission is pleased to note progressive intentions and would urge authorities to implement these policy guidelines in its letter and spirit. Despite efforts, the Commission is concerned of migrant workers particularly women deprived of their basic rights in host countries, rising cost of migration and weaknesses in the system to hold fraudulent recruiting agents accountable. The Commission strongly advocates with the government to take measures to address these issues immediately. 39. The Commission notes the importance of effective implementation of the National Skills Development Policy40, 2013. While appreciating key achievements under the policy the Commission would like to place emphasis on several gaps and challenges identified in a recent report 41 related to this policy. As per the report better coordination among 38 The policy identifies challenges for women migrant workers who take jobs in unregulated low-skilled sectors, such as domestic work etc. This should be addressed and diversified work should be identified for them. Further, the major challenge the female migrant workers fact is lack of information relating to jobs and migration. The policy has proposed a set of guidelines for the improvement of the situation of the female migrant workers, amongst others, to adopt a plan of action through a participatory approach them and for better improvement allocate more gender sensitive budget. 39 Section 2.3.10: to increase financial and human resources leading to the establishment of ‘Labour Welfare Resource Centre’ and thus strengthening the roles and functions of the Labour Wings of the Foreign Missions abroad. 40 The government in 2013 approved and adopted the National Skills Development Policy with the objective of improving employability of citizens locally and overseas. 41 National skills development in Bangladesh 2015 , page 2 (http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/---ilodhaka/documents/publication/wcms_445255.pdf) 12