A death a day: Nepali workers in Saudi
摘要
日期: 2022年2月2日
地點: 沙烏地阿拉伯
其他
Not Reported ( 酒店/飯店 ) - Client受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 尼泊爾 , 飲食服務 , Men , Unknown migration status )議題
死亡 , Personal Health回應
Response sought: 否
後續行動: 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.
資訊來源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2022年2月2日
地點: 沙烏地阿拉伯
企業
K.M.Al-Hammam Est. for Contracting - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 尼泊爾 , 建築 , Gender not reported )議題
受傷 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Personal Health , Wage Theft資訊來源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2022年2月2日
地點: 沙烏地阿拉伯
企業
Saud Al Falah Al-Sahli Transport - Employer , New World Overseas Service - Recruiter受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 尼泊爾 , 運輸：綜合 , Gender not reported )議題
Failing to renew visas , Restricted mobility , 扣留身份證件 , Wage Theft , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
已邀請回應：是，由Resource Centre
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: MR contacted the Nepali embassy but received no response. The Resource invited New World Overseas Service to respond; they did not.
資訊來源: 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...