KILLER HEAT: THE IMPACT OF EXTREME TEMPERATURES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE GULF
Resumo
Data informada: 26 Jun 2023
Localização: Emirados Árabes Unidos
Empresas
Good Luck Manpower - Recruiter , Federal Security Services - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Empresas de Segurança , Gender not reported )Temas
Danos , Direito à Alimentação , Acesso à Água , Intimidação e Ameaças , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Taxas de Recrutamento , Enfermidades , Occupational Health & Safety , Heat exposure , Poverty WagesResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por The Resource Centre
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: Neither company responded.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 26 Jun 2023
Localização: Quatar
Empresas
Asia Link Services - RecruiterOutros
Not Reported ( Construção Civil ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Construção Civil , Gender not reported )Temas
Direito à Alimentação , Acesso à Água , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Enfermidades , Acesso a medicamentos , Wage Theft , Taxas de Recrutamento , Contract Substitution , Heat exposure , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure TimeResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por The Resource Centre
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: None reported. Asia Link Services did not respond to request for comment.
Tipo de fonte: 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