KILLER HEAT: THE IMPACT OF EXTREME TEMPERATURES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE GULF
الملخص
Date Reported: 26 يونيو 2023
الموقع: الإمارات العربية المتحدة
الشركات
Good Luck Manpower - Recruiter , Federal Security Services - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( 1 - نيبال , الشركات الأمنية , Gender not reported )القضايا
الإصابات , الحق في الغذاء , الحصول على المياه , الترهيب والتهديد , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , رسوم التوظيف , المرض , Occupational Health & Safety , Heat exposure , Poverty Wagesالرد
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
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الإجراءات المتخذة: Neither company responded.
نوع المصدر: NGO
الملخص
Date Reported: 26 يونيو 2023
الموقع: قطر
الشركات
Asia Link Services - Recruiterأخرى
Not Reported ( البناء ) - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( 1 - نيبال , البناء , Gender not reported )القضايا
الحق في الغذاء , الحصول على المياه , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , المرض , الوصول والحصول على الأدوية , Wage Theft , رسوم التوظيف , Contract Substitution , Heat exposure , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Timeالرد
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
الإجراءات المتخذة: None reported. Asia Link Services did not respond to request for comment.
نوع المصدر: NGO
This report is the third from the Vital Signs Partnership, a coalition of human rights organisations working to research the deaths of migrant workers in the Gulf states, and to promote enhanced protection for workers’ health. Our first report attempted to quantify and explain the deaths of lowpaid migrant workers in the six states of the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) and identified serious and systematic problems in the manner in which deaths are investigated in the GCC. The second described the various barriers that prevent workers from accessing non-emergency healthcare in the region and identified these as a factor in the exceptionally high-rate of unexplained deaths of migrant workers.
In this report, we explore how extreme temperatures and the Gulf states’ abusive labour practices combine with devastating consequences for the health of migrant workers. We find that long-term exposure to extreme heat leads to chronic health problems which require lifelong treatment