KILLER HEAT: THE IMPACT OF EXTREME TEMPERATURES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE GULF
Riepilogo
Date Reported: 26 Giu 2023
Location: Emirati arabi uniti
Companies
Good Luck Manpower - Recruiter , Federal Security Services - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - Nepal , Security companies , Gender not reported )Issues
Injuries , Right to Food , Access to Water , Intimidation , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Recruitment Fees , Illness , Occupational Health & Safety , Heat exposure , Poverty WagesResponse
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: Neither company responded.
Source type: NGO
Riepilogo
Date Reported: 26 Giu 2023
Location: Qatar
Companies
Asia Link Services - RecruiterOther
Not Reported ( Construction ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - Nepal , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Right to Food , Access to Water , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Illness , Restricted access to medicines , Recruitment Fees , Contract Substitution , Heat exposure , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Wage TheftResponse
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: None reported. Asia Link Services did not respond to request for comment.
Source type: NGO
This report is the third from the Vital Signs Partnership, a coalition of human rights organisations working to research the deaths of migrant workers in the Gulf states, and to promote enhanced protection for workers’ health. Our first report attempted to quantify and explain the deaths of lowpaid migrant workers in the six states of the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) and identified serious and systematic problems in the manner in which deaths are investigated in the GCC. The second described the various barriers that prevent workers from accessing non-emergency healthcare in the region and identified these as a factor in the exceptionally high-rate of unexplained deaths of migrant workers.
In this report, we explore how extreme temperatures and the Gulf states’ abusive labour practices combine with devastating consequences for the health of migrant workers. We find that long-term exposure to extreme heat leads to chronic health problems which require lifelong treatment