Press Conference on the Middle East Crisis and Protection of the Migrants, 2011

A press conference was organized by WARBE Development Foundation 23 February 2011 at Dhaka Reporters Unity Auditorium, on the Middle East Crisis and Protection of the Migrants. It was put on with the technical support from DanChurch Aid and the European Union. The speakers discussed the Middle Eastern crisis and its effect on migrant workers. Mainly the discussion was centered on the Libyian crisis and protection of the Bangladeshi migrants there. Speakers urged the Bangladeshi Government for the immediate safe repatriation of Bangladeshi migrants from Libya.

Before the press conference, a solidarity human chain had been conducted in front of the National Press Club in favor of the immediate repatriation of Bangladeshi migrants from Libya and the ratification of the 1990 UN Convention.