ED: Doing more for our migrant workers

There remain unethical agents at play in the industry, who prey on the migrant workers’ innocence
It is a fact that migrant workers remain one of the biggest assets to the Bangladesh economy. Just last month, our expatriates sent home a record $2.06 billion in remittance, once again proving just how invaluable they are.

However, it is unfortunate that, despite these migrant workers sacrificing so much to help our economy, they oftentimes are only offered hollow words of encouragement, with little in the way of actions to support them. Migrant workers are often mistreated both physically and sexually, and as their passports are taken away, they often have no way of contacting the government, of both their homeland’s and the countries they work in.