投稿者: Katie McQue
Workers for US defence contractor KBR concerned after colleagues die on island with no hospital-grade health facilityMigrant workers employed by the US defence contractor KBR on the British-owned island of Diego Garcia have expressed concerns for their…
UK Export Finance used £5.24bn of taxpayer money to fund overseas energy and infrastructure ventures – despite its own review raising concernsThe British government has provided more than £5bn in the past three years to overseas energy and infrastructu…
Campaigners say not enough is being done to prevent loss of life and the causes of death are not being properly investigatedAs many as 10,000 migrant workers from south and south-east Asia die every year in the Gulf countries, according to a report by …
Security contractors among hundreds from the Philippines, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka stuck without clear plans for evacuationWhen Taliban fighters started to kick at the door of a UN compound in a northern province 250 miles (400km) from the Afghan ca…
Rules intended to protect domestic workers have only made them more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, say activistsAmita* knew she had to escape. After five months of being assaulted, starved and being forced to work for 20 hours a day as a domesti…