JS bodies to address tortures of female workers abroad

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Staff Reporter :
In a bid to find out ways to stop tortures of Bangladeshi female workers abroad, the Parliamentary body on foreign affairs will discuss the matter soon.
The parliamentary standing committee on foreign affairs took the decision at a meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on Sunday.
Meeting sources said, the parliamentary standing

committee on Home, Foreign Affairs and Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment will hold a joint meeting to discuss on torture as well as sexual harassment against Bangladeshi female migrants in different countries.
Ruling Awami League MP and chief of the parliamentary committe Col (retd) Faruk Khan chaired the meeting.
Committee members AK Abdul Momen, Shahriar Alam, Nurul Islam Nahid, Golam Faruk Khandaker Prince, Kazi Nabil Ahmed, among others, attended the meeting.
The meeting decided that the JS bodies will hold the joint meeting to prepare recommendations on how to stop such repressions abroad.

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