Social Communication & Advocacy: Safe Migration Facilitation

Bangladesh has 6.5 million migrant workers employed overseas, many of whom fall victim to exploitation by recruitment agencies or their foreign employers due to their lack of knowledge about the migration process as well as labour laws and rights. Our SMFC project works with both the potential and returning workers, especially women and youth, and provides information on safe migration process, relevant laws and rights, legal support, social arbitration to recover money from middlemen and skills training. The project also raises public awareness on the issue through the media. There are 6 SMFC’s in 17 districts and the project works to protect nearly 2 million workers. Through community-based Migration Forums, it has recovered USD 176,000 from middlemen on behalf of the exploited workers.

Advocacy for Safe Migration and Abating Labour Trafficking
Nowadays Labour Trafficking has become a major threat to our economy. Recognizing the contribution of labour, we have initiated a new project titled “Advocacy for Safe Migration and Abating Labour Trafficking” in July 2010 in order to reduce labour trafficking. This project is covering 9 trafficked prone-districts in Bangladesh. Through our innovative advocacy tool we are trying to raise awareness on safe migration as well as abating human trafficking.