A death a day: Nepali workers in Saudi
Resumo
Data informada: 2 Fev 2022
Localização: Arábia Saudita
Outros
Not Reported ( Hotel ) - ClientAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Serviços de Buffet e Alimentação , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Mortes , Saúde pessoalResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: 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 fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 2 Fev 2022
Localização: Arábia Saudita
Empresas
K.M.Al-Hammam Est. for Contracting - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Construção Civil , Gender not reported )Temas
Danos , Condições de vida precárias/inadequadas , Saúde pessoal , Roubo de saláriosResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Resource Centre
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: None reported.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 2 Fev 2022
Localização: Arábia Saudita
Empresas
Saud Al Falah Al-Sahli Transport - Employer , New World Overseas Service - RecruiterAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Transporte: geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Não renovação de vistos , Mobilidade restrita , Retenção de documentos de identificação , Roubo de salários , Privação da liberdade de ir e virResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Resource Centre
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: MR contacted the Nepali embassy but received no response. The Resource invited New World Overseas Service to respond; they did not.
Tipo de fonte: 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...