A death a day: Nepali workers in Saudi
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 2 Feb 2022
Ubicación: Arabia Saudita
Otro
Not Reported ( Hoteles ) - ClientAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 1
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Catering y servicios de comida , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Muertes , Personal HealthRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: 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.
Tipo de fuente: NGO
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 2 Feb 2022
Ubicación: Arabia Saudita
Empresas
K.M.Al-Hammam Est. for Contracting - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 1
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Construcción , Gender not reported )Temas
Lesiones/Heridas , Condiciones de vida precarias/inadecuadas , Personal Health , Robo de salariosRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Resource Centre
Historia que contiene respuesta: (Más información)
Medidas adoptadas: None reported.
Tipo de fuente: NGO
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 2 Feb 2022
Ubicación: Arabia Saudita
Empresas
Saud Al Falah Al-Sahli Transport - Employer , New World Overseas Service - RecruiterAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 1
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Transporte: General , Gender not reported )Temas
Incumplimiento con la renovación de visas , Movilidad restringida , Retención de pasaportes , Robo de salarios , Negación de la libertad de movimientoRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Resource Centre
Historia que contiene respuesta: (Más información)
Medidas adoptadas: MR contacted the Nepali embassy but received no response. The Resource invited New World Overseas Service to respond; they did not.
Tipo de fuente: 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...