"Migrants’ rights groups call on government to repatriate and protect the workers stranded overseas", 31 March 2020

As thousands of Nepali migrant workers remain stranded in several countries amid the global Covid-19 crisis, migrants’ rights groups have called on the government to ensure their safety.

In a joint statement released by the National Network for Safe Migration, these organisations have demanded that the Nepal government should coordinate with its foreign missions to make arrangements to return the stranded workers who want to come home.

...The network has said those who cannot return due to travel restrictions should be kept safely by providing proper health facilities and those who have returned or wish to return should be kept in quarantine.

...According to the network, the government should introduce a relief package targeting the families of migrant workers too, as the money sent by them in the form remittance continues to paddle the country’s economy...