67 officials from government and civil society exchanged insights to refine and strengthen the online data collection system and reporting format on Trafficking in Persons, at a workshop held in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs.
In collaboration with the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs Bangladesh, a national consultation workshop on data collection for the annual country report on human trafficking was organised in Dhaka. The workshop aimed to gather inputs from relevant stakeholders to develop a web-based data collection mechanism and an analytical country report.
Economic need is the most significant of the risk factors of trafficking in persons in Bangladesh, says the First National Study on Trafficking in Persons in Bangladesh. The study's finding also highlighted climate change as another emerging root cause it said, adding that traffickers targeting victims affected by environmental disasters such as floods and droughts which