What began as a promising opportunity towards a better life turned into a harrowing ordeal for Junaeid Hossain Parbez Ariyan, 25, of Narsingdi’s Belabo.
We need to address the root cause of trafficking
Fooled by a gang, a widow in Chuadanga got her daughter married to a Chinese national named Cui Po Wei on July 1 last year, hoping that she would rise out of poverty.
"Scorpion", whose real name is Barzan Majeed, was arrested in the city of Sulaimaniyah at Interpol's request, said security forces spokesperson Salam Abdel Khaleq to AFP.
The name of the route is "Game". It may sound like a video game. However, it's the name of a house where trafficking victims are gathered before starting a boat journey in the Mediterranean Sea
Government must put a stop to trafficking before more tragedies take place
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A so-called broker in Dhaka promised Rasal Miah he would be taken to Malaysia and given a job at a construction site.
Authorities transfer some 600 immigration staff out of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) station after some of them were suspected of being involved in the smuggling in of Bangladeshis.
Bangladesh police arrested an alleged human trafficker and intercepted two Rohingya refugees preparing to board a boat for Malaysia, officials said yesterday.
In this second part video of a documentary series, Malaysian journalists go undercover to experience the desperate living conditions of migrant workers mostly from Bangladesh in Malaysia. It shows how an international human trafficking ring uses private colleges in Malaysia to exploit young Bangladeshis.
The horrific exploitation of human beings by traffickers, as detailed in a report published by this newspaper yesterday, calls for increased vigilance against this menace.
Thousands of young Bangladeshis are trafficked to Malaysia through obscure private colleges and their unscrupulous “agents”.
Prosecutions over human trafficking related cases in the country have been reducing each year and came down alarmingly last year mainly because of faulty case filings, inappropriate victim identification and lack of allegations raised by victims.
In the last five years, as many as 2,733 people have been rescued from the clutches of human traffickers in Cox's Bazar. And 242 cases were filed against some 1,355 people over the incidents. However, not a single one has been disposed of.
The government needs to establish a separate tribunal for speeding up trials to combat human trafficking.
More than a thousand families in Pakoria union of Tangail faced deception at different stages when they did send or tried to send at
The biggest problem with trafficking from Bangladesh is of course the inability to successfully address the issue of high recruitment fees which leads to victims becoming entrapped into bonded labour. The problems are multifarious and require political will to rectify the systemic faults that exist. Unless we start making some changes, Bangladesh's position is not likely to see improvement in the next year's report.
