He fell on to a conveyor belt, and in seconds was turned into pulp, his shrieks of terror drowned by heavy machinery. This is no horror film, but what happened to a nineteen year old boy just yesterday. Erode, Tamil Nadu: a young man from Bihar was working along a conveyor belt in a private paper […]
Some ten thousand Indians are stranded in Saudi Arabia. General V.K. Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs, has left for Saudi Arabia, raising hopes that he may do something for them. The Indian government has confirmed that 7,700 Indian workers were affected by widespread unemployment and are in dire need of exit visas.. Minister […]
Activists in Nepal have received many complaints from across the Gulf regionof maltreatment and exploitation of workers. Sujata Upreti, an official of the Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee (PNCC), a Kathmandu-based labour rights group representing Nepalese migrant workers, has told an Asian news agency that many had been arrested and deported because they were found outside […]
