Kyrgyzstan: Sewing shop subjects South Asian workers to slave labor conditions, neglects proper standards, and fails to pay promised wages
摘要
日期: 2024年6月22日
地点: 吉尔吉斯
其他
Not Reported ( 衣服和纺织品 ) - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 30
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 亚洲与太平洋地区 , 衣服和纺织品 , Women , Undocumented migrants )议题
食物权 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , 恐吓和威胁 , Withholding Passports回应
Response sought: 否
信息来源: News outlet
" In Kyrgyzstan, a Woman Kept Foreigners in Slave Labor", 22 June 2024
The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) has revealed gross violations in a sewing shop near Kyrgyzstan’s capital, wherein its owners employed South Asians without providing them with proper working conditions.
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operatives searched the sewing shop where 30 South Asians worked; the GKNB said that a Kyrgyz citizen fraudulently attracted foreigners to work. Violating her obligations, the boss did not pay the promised wages, and exploited the workers’ labor to make the greatest profit.
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The foreigners were kept in conditions that did not meet basic sanitary requirements, and they were barely fed. The owner of the sewing shop and a district police officer were detained and placed in a temporary detention center.
Due to the increasing demand for garment products, many workshop owners bring workers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries for cheap labor.