18 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 11:57, updated 14 h ago
মানবপাচার প্রতিরোধে সরকার জিরো টলারেন্স নীতি অনুসরণ করছে: স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী
home minister says government follows zero tolerance human trafficking
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Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the government is pursuing a zero-tolerance policy towards human trafficking and organised crime, with coordinated efforts underway to protect victims, rehabilitate them and bring perpetrators to justice. He made the remarks during a courtesy meeting with Maqsoda Maqsodi, global president and CEO of Winrock International, at the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Bangladesh Secretariat on Monday, 26 October. He said the government is implementing the National Referral Mechanism and the Human Trafficking Prevention Fund, expediting NGO and project approvals, and that immediate legal action was taken against networks using cyberspace and fake online job offers. The two sides discussed the Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Prevention and Suppression Act, 2026, the digital NRM platform and survivor rehabilitation. Maqsodi said Winrock has partnered with the ministry since 2008 and pledged full support for the 2026 Act and the National Plan of Action for 2026-2030.
Where accounts differ. Dhaka Post gives the meeting day as Saturday, while Banglanews24.com and The Daily Waadaa give Monday, and Dhaka Post's Bengali text reports Saturday (26 October).
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Govt pursuing zero tolerance against human trafficking, organised crime: Home Minister
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Govt pursuing zero tolerance against human trafficking, organised crime: Home Minister
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মানবপাচার রোধে জিরো টলারেন্স নীতিতে সরকার: স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী
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Ekattor TV
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The Daily Observer
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Shomoyer Alo
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Protidiner Sangbad
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Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.
What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.
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