Speakers at a webinar on Saturday called for recognising and highlighting contributions of women migrant workers properly in the country.
Women migrant workers are playing a crucial role with their hard-earned remittance for the development of their families and societies in many ways, but they are not receiving due honour and support when they return home, added the speakers.
The participants suggested ensuring protection for the women workers both at home and job destination countries.
Migration experts, academicians, rights activists joined the virtual discussion on 'Rebels, Victims, Agents of Change: Women Migrant Workers and Their Complex Stories' -organised by Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID) and Drishti Research Centre (DRC) with the support of Work in Freedom, ILO.
Thérèse Blanchet, social anthropologist and principal investigator of the DRC, made a presentation on 'Rebels, Victims, Agents of Change: Women Migrant Workers and Their Complex Stories'.
M Abu Eusuf, professor of Development Studies at Dhaka University and executive director of RAPID, moderated the programme, while Igor Bosc, chief technical advisor, ILO Work-in-Freedom Project; Samita Sen, professor of the Department of History at the University of Cambridge, UK; Shireen Huq of Naripokkho, Bangladesh; and Indrani Mazumdar of the Centre for Women Development Studies, Delhi; attended the event, among others.
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