Bangladesh Civil Society for Migration (BCSM) organised a dialogue titled ‘Protecting Bangladeshi Migrants: Parliamentarian-Civil Society Dialogue’ with Parliamentarians’ Caucus on Migration and Development to discuss the scope of collaboration with Caucus and set out a road map to achieve SDG and GCM through upholding migrants’ rights.
C R Abrar, Chair of BCSM formally introduced BCSM to the Parliamentarian Caucus and Co-Chair; Syed Saiful Haque highlighted the background of the platform. Afterwards, Dr. Tasneem Siddiqui presented a power point presentation on major policy engagement of this platform.
Participants from ASK, BASUG, BRAC, BOMSA, IMA Research Foundation, BCWWF, MJF, INAFI, YPSA, BASTOB, Rights Jessore, BOAF, WARBE DF and RMMRU along with individual members of BCSM were present in the dialogue and denoted their opinion about skilled migration, recruitment in Malaysia and new job markets issues in front of the Caucus.
Mr. Gerry Fox, Team Leader, Prokas expected the collaboration would help achieve SDG and GCM.
Mr. Israfil Alam, honourable Member of Parliament and Chair of Parliamentarian Caucus on Migration and Development expressed his gratitude to BCSM for its policy engagement on behalf of civil society. Pointing out some current issues such as high migration cost and vulnerability of female migrants in KSA, he signified the scope of work in collaboration with BCSM.
