State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam on Sunday stressed the need for improving the country’s socio-economic condition to fight human trafficking. “Poverty, unemployment and helplessness are the root causes behind the human trafficking in the country, which should be removed to combat the crime.
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Govt eyes to cut joblessness by half, poverty by 2/3rds by 2030
The government targets to cut unemployment and underemployment by 50 per cent and the poverty headcount by two-thirds by 2030 under a draft post-2015 development agenda. The Planning Commission has already framed a draft of the country’s post-2015 development agenda which the United Nations may adopt after
Unemployment world’s fastest rising fear
Unemployment is the world’s fastest-rising worry, a BBC World Service survey covering 11,000 people in 23 countries suggests. The annual poll, called The World Speaks, gave people a list of concerns and asked which they had discussed with friends or family in the past month. Corruption and poverty still ranked the highest, but unemployment was ... Read more