A death a day: Nepali workers in Saudi
Summary
Date Reported: 2 Feb 2022
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Hotel ) - ClientAffected
Total individuals affected: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - Nepal , Catering & food services , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Personal HealthResponse
Response sought: No
Action taken: The report mentioned that Dipak had been recruited by a company called Emasco into a different job with Nayarah Trading before he was employed at the hotel, though there is no indication Emasco was responsible for his eventual employment situation. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Emasco to provide more information but they did not. We were unable to find contact information for Nayarah Trading and could not invite them to respond to the report.
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 2 Feb 2022
Location: Saudi Arabia
Companies
K.M.Al-Hammam Est. for Contracting - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - Nepal , Construction , Gender not reported )Issues
Injuries , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Personal Health , Wage TheftResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: None reported.
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 2 Feb 2022
Location: Saudi Arabia
Companies
Saud Al Falah Al-Sahli Transport - Employer , New World Overseas Service - RecruiterAffected
Total individuals affected: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - Nepal , Transport: General , Gender not reported )Issues
Failing to renew visas , Restricted mobility , Retention of identity documents , Wage Theft , Freedom of MovementResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: MR contacted the Nepali embassy but received no response. The Resource invited New World Overseas Service to respond; they did not.
Source type: NGO
In a previous report, Migrant-Rights.org investigated the high rate of unexplained deaths of Nepali workers in Qatar. As mentioned in that report, the mortality rates in Saudi Arabia are far higher...
The actual number of deaths is likely higher since the FEB’s data only include those whose families have received compensation after death... According to FEB data for the fiscal year 2020-2021, the highest number of Nepali migrant worker deaths were reported in Saudi Arabia — a total of 368, or at least one death every day. More than a quarter of these deaths were classified as “natural,”...
The Embassy of Nepal in Saudi Arabia did not respond to MR’s data requests. But the documents issued by the embassy were found to have categorised cause of death as “natural,” even if a worker died for different reasons...
The Nepal government is aware of the increasing number of ‘natural’ deaths in Saudi. “But we cannot do anything since the Saudi government does the investigations. We must rely on the reports received from the Nepali embassy,” admits Rajan Prasad Shrestha, executive director of the FEB.
But he thinks that many of those “natural deaths” are related to the environment, more precisely the high temperature...More than 20,000 Nepali workers in the GCC have been forced to leave their job after being disabled, injured, or sick in 2017-2018 alone...