A/HRC/53/26/Add.3 E. Returnees (u) 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; (v) Increase labour inspections and prosecute, punish and sanction persons or groups exploiting all migrant workers, both documented and undocumented; (w) Ensure that, in administrative and judicial proceedings, migrant workers and members of their families are guaranteed due process in courts and tribunals; (x) Ensure that the deaths of migrant workers are properly investigated and that their families are compensated; (y) Ensure that all overseas workers are registered with the Wage Earners’ Welfare Board so that they are eligible for membership welfare benefits. F. International cooperation: Bangladesh and countries of destination (z) Leverage existing platforms, such as regional and global consultative processes, to push for practical, results-oriented interventions for migrant workers, including advocacy for better protections for domestic workers, workers’ rights to unionize, life insurance, wage theft responses and proper investigations of their deaths; (aa) Address the situation of migrant workers who are victims of the kafalah system, in particular in the States members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and consider raising the issue individually and collectively, with a view to encouraging the Governments concerned to abolish that system, which has serious negative impacts on the human rights of migrants; (bb) Ensure, through bilateral and multilateral social security agreements, that all migrant workers and members of their families have adequate social protection; (cc) Monitor the enforcement of bilateral agreements and ensure that all such agreements and memorandums of understanding signed between countries of origin and destination are made public, that they are transparent and that their implementation is monitored effectively; (dd) Work closely with bilateral and regional partners in lowering the cost of migration for migrant workers from Bangladesh; (ee) Strengthen the capacity of missions and embassies to keep workers abreast of reforms and how to benefit from them and to rapidly respond to workers in distress by providing facilities, such as shelter services, for those who flee abusive employers; (ff) Strengthen the welfare services and consular assistance provided to Bangladeshi migrant workers in countries of destination, including psychological counselling, legal counselling and shelters for migrants in distress, and ensure that such services and assistance are delivered in a gender-responsive manner; (gg) Implement relevant recommendations on migration made by United Nations agencies and emanating from human rights mechanisms, including the special procedures, the universal periodic review mechanism and the human rights treaty bodies; G. Data (hh) Promote the collection and provision by Governments on both sides of the migration corridor of accurate data on migration, including on remittances, the welfare and treatment of migrant workers and the whereabouts of workers; 18 GE.23-08750

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