Workers' rights
- Fertility problems, Global development, Global health, Migration and development, Nepal, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
Nepal’s migrant workers suffering ‘alarming’ rate of fertility problems
Doctors say high stress, heat and harsh living conditions may be the cause of low sperm counts in men returnin…
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‘We know the pain’: freed India coffee workers lead way from bonded labour
Thousands of families are trapped by debts on plantations in south-west Karnataka, despite the practice suppos…
- Business, Fashion, Fashion industry, Global development, Life and style, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
Pakistan welcomes fast-fashion brand Boohoo despite poor staff safety claims
Call to set up role comes as report alleges retailer uses factories that violate minimum-wage requirements and…
- Bangladesh, Garment workers, Global development, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
Bangladeshi labour leader beaten to death while trying to resolve dispute
Shahidul Islam died in an assault on Sunday in Dhaka after meeting garment factory employees fighting for unpa…
- Africa, Employment, Fifa, Football, Global development, Kenya, Middle East and North Africa, Pakistan, Qatar, Remittances, South and Central Asia, Sport, Workers' rights, World Cup, World Cup 2022, World news
World Cup security guards still jailed in Qatar after dispute over unpaid wages
Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to cl…
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‘A nightmare I couldn’t wake up from’: half of Rana Plaza survivors unable to work 10 years after disaster
A decade after Bangladesh’s worst garment-industry disaster, injury and ill health plagues those that escapedT…
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Abuses ‘still rife’: 10 years on from Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza disaster
Campaigners say safety has improved but brands need to do more for workers’ rights and pay as survivors recoun…
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A dazzling display of 1.5m tulips – but only after a backbreaking year for Indian labourers
Visitors to Asia’s largest tulip garden in Srinagar, Kashmir, do not see the toil by low-paid workers that lie…
- Football, Global development, Middle East and North Africa, Nepal, Qatar, South and Central Asia, Sport, Workers' rights, World Cup, World Cup 2022, World news
‘Dark days in Qatar’: Nepali workers face bitter legacy of World Cup debts
For thousands of low-paid workers, this year’s games brought back only memories of abuse and exploitationOn a …
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What do you mean, day off?
Workers tell of sweatshop conditions at Thai factory used by Tesco, as supermarket says it knew nothing of cla…
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The Great Abandonment: the extraordinary exodus of India’s migrant labourers – video
In 2020, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, announced one of the harshest Covid lockdowns in the world,…
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Lady of the Gobi: trucking coal across the desert to China
On Mongolia’s coal highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial s…
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Lady of the Gobi: trucking coal across the desert to China
On Mongolia’s coal highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial s…
- Fifa, Football, Football politics, Global development, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Nepal, Qatar, South and Central Asia, Sport, Workers' rights, World Cup, World Cup 2022, World news
Migrant workers in Qatar left in debt after being ordered home before World Cup starts
Early end to migrants’ contracts leaves many owing large sums to recruiters and unable to support their famili…
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Hong Kong NETs – foreign teachers of English – forced to take allegiance oath
Authoritarian measures are widened to meet Chinese loyalty requirements, despite fears it will worsen teacher …