National Convention for Reducing the Impact of Unsafe Migration on Children

The Daily Star

Save the Children in Bangladesh, the International Organization for Migration, Plan International- Bangladesh, Winrock, the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) and United Development Initiatives for Programme Actions (UDDIPAN) organised a national convention for reducing the impact of unsafe migration on children in Bangladesh. The convention was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 25 June, 2015. The event brought together actors from national and local government, academia, and civil society, as well as development partners, migrant workers, and youth themselves. The meeting was organized into 4 panel sessions which focused on the following themes: Missing Child Alert, Human Trafficking, Migration and Development, and Rural to Urban child Migration. This article presents a summary of the panel discussions as well as the recommendations and draft declaration that came out of the convention.