A death a day: Nepali workers in Saudi
Résumé
Date indiquée: 2 Fév 2022
Lieu: Arabie Saoudite
Autre
Not Reported ( Hôtels ) - ClientConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 1
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( 1 - Népal , Restauration et services alimentaires , Men , Unknown migration status )Enjeux
Morts , Santé personnelleRéponse
Response sought: Non
Mesures prises: 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.
Type de source: NGO
Résumé
Date indiquée: 2 Fév 2022
Lieu: Arabie Saoudite
Entreprises
K.M.Al-Hammam Est. for Contracting - EmployerConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 1
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( 1 - Népal , Construction , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Blessures , Conditions de vie précaires/inadaptées , Santé personnelle , Salaire impayéRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par Resource Centre
Affaire contenant la réponse: (En savoir plus)
Mesures prises: None reported.
Type de source: NGO
Résumé
Date indiquée: 2 Fév 2022
Lieu: Arabie Saoudite
Entreprises
Saud Al Falah Al-Sahli Transport - Employer , New World Overseas Service - RecruiterConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 1
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( 1 - Népal , Transports: Généralités , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Défaut de renouvellement de visa , Mobilité restreinte , Conservation des documents d'identité , Salaire impayé , Déni de liberté de mouvementRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par Resource Centre
Affaire contenant la réponse: (En savoir plus)
Mesures prises: MR contacted the Nepali embassy but received no response. The Resource invited New World Overseas Service to respond; they did not.
Type de source: 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...