50,000 female migrants returned during pandemic
Says Brac data
There are an estimated 67 million domestic workers in the world, 80 percent of whom are women and 11.5 million of whom are migrants. Photo: AFP/Munir Uz Zaman
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
About 49,924 female migrant workers returned home from 21 countries amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Brac Migration Programme.
Besides, at least 487 bodies of female migrant workers arrived after 2016.
The NGO yesterday shared the data with the media ahead of the International Women's Day on March 8.
Brac said about 9.24 lakh female migrant workers went abroad for employment in different countries including the Middle Eastern ones between 1991 and last year.