Bangladesh has urged the international community to remain vocal for justice for the victims of the atrocities in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque made the call at a seminar in The Hague recently, said the Bangladesh Embassy in The Hague on Friday, reports the UNB.

He referred to the Bangladesh’s humanitarian response to the arrival of over one million forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

In response to a question, Secretary Haque narrated the atrocities committed on the Rohingyas and the systematic flushing out of the Rohingya population by the Myanmar authorities through violence, rape, terror, and economic blockade.

Referring to the current and future trend of migration to Asia and Europe and the necessity for human capital by market forces, the Foreign Secretary suggested for hybrid global migration governance, if not a legally-bound Convention on migration governance, for the mutual benefit of all.

He underlined the necessity of international governance of migration.

The prestigious International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University of the Netherlands organised the seminar titled ‘Improving International Migration Regimes’ at its campus in The Hague.

The Foreign Secretary presented keynote speech on ‘Global Compact for Migration Governance: Issues, Zero Draft and Way Forward’.

Members of The Hague-based diplomatic corps and international organisations, academia, students, business representatives, local and international media representatives, expatriate community members, among others, attended the seminar.

The Foreign Secretary, in his keynote speech, highlighted the complex migratory processes and drivers of migration, contemporary migration dynamics, State’s challenges in governing migration, Global Compact for Migration with reference to the New York Declaration of 2016, zero-draft of Migration Compact, and the ways forward.

Haque termed Bangladesh as a source, transit and destination country of migration.

He also responded to the questions from the floor on a wide range of issues including climate change induced migration, skilled versus general migration, businesses’ need and role for migration, contemporary discourse on international migration governance, etc.

The acting rector as well as Prof Des Gasper of ISS also spoke on the occasion.

They highlighted Bangladesh’s leadership role in the international migration discussion including conceptualisation of the Global Compact for Migration as well as Bangladesh’s active contribution to migration discourse.