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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;
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