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State leadership and stakeholder engagement essential for prioritizing and implementing GCM

January 21, 2020

Stakeholder engagement for prioritizing and implementing Global Compact for Migration needs a state champion mentioned the speakers at a policy discussion. Honourable Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of…

CGCM meets the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to Jordan

January 8, 2020

Members of CGCM (CSOs for Global Commitments on Migration) went to meet the newly appointed Ambassador of Bangladesh to Jordan – Nahida Sobhan on 8th January 2020 at the Ministry…

‘One of Millions Migrant Story’ highlighted at Int’l. Migrants Day

December 19, 2019

When we talk about millions of migrants and billions of remittances – we often forget the depth of humane stories behind these numbers. ‘One of Millions Migrant Story’ is a…

Should Disability Art be considered just art?

December 12, 2019

How should we define disability and its relation to art? How can we include more artists with disabilities in mainstream art? These were the issues explored and critically discussed by…

Disability art dare to make a difference in the mainstream

December 11, 2019

Disability art is art. Whether it is poems or painting or music or comedy or theatre, it is seriously intentioned creative work and made with some sort of aesthetic purpose.…

Empowering women migrants calls for information dissemination & middlemen regulation

December 7, 2019

Members of CGCM (CSOs for Global Commitments on Migration) and representatives of various stakeholders of migration came together to discuss empowerment of women migrants at the presentation on findings from BNSK’s…

CGCM submits suggestions and recommendations to the govt. for pre-JTC meeting

November 23, 2019

CSOs for Global Commitments on Migration (CGCM) submitted suggestions to the government of Bangladesh accumulated through a pre-JTC consultation on 23rd November 2019. CGCM submitted this note to Mr. Salim…

Secretary vowed to hold recruiting agencies on both sides responsible

November 23, 2019

Recruiting agencies at both sides need to be made responsible for failing to protect migrant workers and actions need to be taken against the unscrupulous visa traders at both the…

Assessment of all children: a priority of SDG 4

November 13, 2019

Since Bangladesh has already achieved better gender parity in children’s net & gross school enrollment and has increased adult literacy rate, poor learning scenario at primary level has become a…

IIDedu prepares for nation-wide assessment of SDG 4.1

November 11, 2019

SDG Indicator 4.1.1 calls for measurement of minimum proficiency levels of children at the end of primary and at the end of lower secondary. However, the ‘SDG progress report 2018’,…

Pre GFMD Tripartite National Consultation

October 29, 2019

The consultation aimed to set a localized and gender-responsive position for Bangladesh at the 12th Global Forum on Migration and Development Summit.

Making GFMD contextualized and gender-responsive

October 22, 2019

The global commitments on migration needs to be locally contextualized and gender-responsive— argued the experts at the national tripartite consultation that have set an example of partnership and collective action…