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4 Jui 2024

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By Pramod Acharya, Migrant-Rights.Org

Gulf: Nepali workers driven to migrate amid climate crises experience dangerous conditions after arrival as cos. fail to protect them from heat

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““From Frying Pan to Fire”: From Climate-Stricken Villages in Nepal To Extreme Heat in Gulf, Workers Risk Lives for Livelihoods”

Driven from their fields by increasingly erratic weather patterns … more Nepali farmers are migrating in search of new livelihoods. But their escape from one climate disaster lands them in another, with rising temperatures in the Gulf…

Ramesh Yadav had never experienced extreme heat until he arrived in Saudi Arabia…

…Ramesh headed to Saudi to work for … Aramco…

…Ramesh works at Aramco’s gas plant through L&T Hydrocarbon…

…he was told by the recruitment firm that he would be directly employed … But when he arrived in the Kingdom, he ended up with a labour supplier called Al-Rashid Trading & Contracting Company…

Bishal Mandal delivers Hunger Station food…

Because of the difficult job and unbearable weather, he has fallen sick many times…

…his employer, Al Saeed General Contracting, refused to pay for medicine. ..

…His company, Red Links Construction, forced him to work 12 hours a day outdoors…

Upendra met his misfortune within four months of starting work for Al Wakeel Trading and Contracting…

Sabir’s employer, Arabian Decoration Est., didn’t explain his cause of death to the family, …

[Migrant-Rights.Org contacted all companies named in the article for comment. No companies responded]