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(f)
Enforce the registration of dalals and hold them accountable for their
actions, under the responsibility of recruitment agencies;
(g)
Investigate illegal and fraudulent practices by recruitment agents and
sanction those involved in exploitative practices;
(h)
Promote the use of the ILO general principles and operational guidelines
for fair recruitment and its definition of recruitment fees and related costs;
(i)
Strengthen pre-departure training to ensure that migrant domestic
workers are well-informed of their rights and the available resources, as well as
provided with language skills that could aid them, and ensure that post-arrival sessions
are provided for women returning to Bangladesh after their work abroad, so that they
receive in-country information and assistance;
(j)
Work closely with other countries of origin and call upon countries of
destination to put into place proper occupational health and safety safeguards for
migrant workers to minimize deaths and ensure that, if deaths do inevitably occur,
despite those best efforts, they are properly investigated, with compensation provided
to the families of the deceased;
(k)
Strengthen cooperation with host country Governments to reduce
migration fees and implement due diligence practices to ensure that recruitment
agencies are not perpetuating visa trading or “double dipping” by charging a
recruitment fee to both the employer and the migrant worker;
(l)
Advocate for life insurance for migrant workers in countries of
destination to ensure that the location or cause of the death or injury of a migrant
worker does not determine compensation eligibility;
C.
Protection
(m) Provide adequate assistance, protection and reintegration, including
psychosocial rehabilitation, to all migrant workers who are victims of sexual and labour
exploitation, especially women and children, as stated in the draft national reintegration
policy;
(n)
Increase labour inspections and prosecute, punish and sanction persons
or groups exploiting any migrant worker, both documented and undocumented;
(o)
Take the steps necessary to ensure that, in administrative and judicial
proceedings, migrant workers and members of their families are guaranteed due
process in courts and tribunals;
(p)
Further develop the payments made to migrant workers or their families
from the Wage Earners’ Welfare Fund by making the Fund more transparent, nondiscriminatory and fair;
(q)
Strengthen work and engagement with civil society organizations to
enhance protection of the human rights of migrants;
D.
Skills
(r)
Develop mutual recognition arrangements with countries of destination
that consider, among other things, equal protection and equal pay for equal skills and
qualifications;
(s)
Establish systems and structures at home and in countries of destination
that support the continuous enhancement of skills and employability of migrant
workers;
(t)
Establish an online verification system for verification for employability
qualification of migrant workers to support the employment of qualified migrant
workers;
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