Migrant labourers work at a Brick Kiln, in Bhaktapur, on Tuesday, January 4, 2021. Nepalese and Indian workers arrive during winter to work at various brick kilns in Kathmandu Valley. Majority of the workers represent a high proportion of workers in the brick kilns: only 22% of total workers are originally from the same district […]
Migrant workers in Brick Kilns of Kathmandu Valley Read Post »
Qatari authorities have failed to investigate the deaths of thousands of migrant workers over the past decade, despite evidence of links between premature deaths and unsafe working conditions, Amnesty International (AI) has said. AI’s new report, ‘In the Prime of their Lives’, documents how Qatar routinely issues death certificates for migrant workers without conducting adequate
DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) – When Kapil left his Nepali village for an airport job packing cargo in the United Arab Emirates, he thought he was securing a future for himself and his family. But less than a year after arriving in the Middle East trade and tourism hub, he questions whether it was the
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Rajesh Hamal, Nepal’s beloved actor and TV personality has a message for all of us – to welcome our fellow Nepalese, who are returning from abroad without stigma. The social initiave, dubbed as #hamronamaste is an Unilever initiative in partnership with UNICEF. Rajesh Hamal, who has come aboard as its goodwill ambassador, urges everyone at
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KATHMANDU, June 30 (Reuters) – Nepali housewife Shiba Kala Limbu grimaced as she recalled how she went hungry in order to feed her five-year-old daughter after the coronavirus pandemic cost her husband his job as a mason in the Gulf state of Qatar. The 25-year-old said she had no money for rent after the payments
Nepal families face hunger, skip meals as pandemic hits remittances Read Post »
The Supreme Court has ordered the government to use foreign employment welfare fund to repatriate Nepali migrant workers, who have been stranded in various countries and are willing to return home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A joint bench of justice Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Hari Prasad Phuyal passed down the order in response to a
Four months have passed since the government announced that it would pay allowance to the health workers serving in the frontline against Covid-19, but the payment has yet to be made. The Ministry of Health and Population had announced that frontline health workers will be paid allowances equivalent to their salaries. Many frontline healthcare workers
The government has listed out hotels available as quarantine center for rescued migrant workers coming from abroad. The list was made by Kathmandu District Administration Office (DAO) under the coordination of the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Hotel Association of Nepal (HAN) had provided Kathmandu DAO with the list of hotels willing to provide their
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An Indian train killed 14 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track on Friday while they were heading back to their home village after losing their jobs in a coronavirus lockdown, police said. Thousands of people have been walking home from India’s big cities after being laid off because of the lockdown since late March.
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