A death a day: Nepali workers in Saudi
Краткое изложение
Date Reported: 2 Фев 2022
Местонахождение: Саудовская Аравия
Другое
Not Reported ( Отели ) - ClientЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: 1
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( 1 - Непал , Кейтеринг и услуги питания , Men , Unknown migration status )Темы
Смерть , Личное здоровьеОтвет
Response sought: Нет
Принятые меры: 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.
Вид источника: NGO
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Date Reported: 2 Фев 2022
Местонахождение: Саудовская Аравия
Компании
K.M.Al-Hammam Est. for Contracting - EmployerЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: 1
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( 1 - Непал , Строительство , Gender not reported )Темы
Травмы , Нестабильные/неподходящие условия жизни , Личное здоровье , Кража зарплатыОтвет
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Принятые меры: None reported.
Вид источника: NGO
Краткое изложение
Date Reported: 2 Фев 2022
Местонахождение: Саудовская Аравия
Компании
Saud Al Falah Al-Sahli Transport - Employer , New World Overseas Service - RecruiterЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: 1
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( 1 - Непал , Транспорт: Вся категория , Gender not reported )Темы
Непродление визы , Ограниченная мобильность , Удержание документов, удостоверяющих личность , Кража зарплаты , Ограничение свободы передвиженияОтвет
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Принятые меры: MR contacted the Nepali embassy but received no response. The Resource invited New World Overseas Service to respond; they did not.
Вид источника: 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...