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Kerala is providing lessons on how not to be scammed by employment agencies as US and UK step up immigration raidsOn a warm February morning, Devika, 24, sits with more than 60 classmates in the city of Kochi, in Kerala, southern India, learning how to…
続きを読むMillions of migrants will build stadiums, transport networks and hotels. But testimonies from Bangladeshis who have worked there suggest abuse is deeply entrenched in the Gulf kingdomWhen Shahadat set out for Saudi Arabia from his village in Bangladesh…
続きを読むForced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcareThe phrase “khat rahein hain” (“being worn down”) is how Suma Devi describes her 16 years of labouring at the brick kilns near the city …
続きを読むFresh outbreak of violence after decades of ethnic tensions has prompted tens of thousands of people to flee to BangladeshDescribed as the world’s most persecuted people, an estimated 600,000 Rohingya people live in Myanmar. They live predominately in …
続きを読むAs the Gulf kingdom bids to host a World Cup that will see its reliance on cheap foreign labour soar, planeloads of men already return daily to Dhaka, gaunt, dazed and brokeAmong the joyful family reunions at the arrivals gate at Dhaka’s internationa…
続きを読むAs the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no futurePhotographs by Aishwarya MohantyIn Udaykani, a coastal village in the east Indi…
続きを読むFrench authorities accused of failing to investigate the fates of refugees who have gone missing at sea while trying to cross by boat to the UK, with families still waiting for news of loved onesLate in the evening of 14 December last year four friends…
続きを読むIn camps on the border with Thailand, thousands of people displaced by the military are subsisting on meagre rationsIt has been months since Naw Eh Wah has had a proper meal. The 15kg of rice she, like others living in the camp, was receiving every fou…
続きを読むAfghans waiting to be resettled in the UK and other western countries face steep charge in ‘unprecedented’ movePakistan’s decision to impose hundreds of dollars in exit fees for every Afghan refugee who fled the persecution by the Taliban has been cond…
続きを読むRewards offered for turning in ‘illegal Afghans’ as refugees pay price for tensions between Pakistani government and TalibanAamir Muhammad has barely left his house for weeks; neither have his neighbours. In his ramshackle neighbourhood on the outskirt…
続きを読むDoctors say high stress, heat and harsh living conditions may be the cause of low sperm counts in men returning from the GulfOn a cluster of metal benches outside the infertility unit at Paropakar Maternity and Women’s hospital in Kathmandu, a dozen ma…
続きを読むWomen aiming to reach UK or Ireland realised lorry was heading in wrong direction and contacted BBC journalistSix women have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in France after a panicked text message to a BBC reporter set off a frantic …
続きを読むImages of the struggle for human rights and freedoms around the world this week, from a women’s march for justice in Brazil to an attack on churches in Pakistan Continue reading…
続きを読むWar in Ukraine and Pakistan’s ‘monsoon on steroids’ among events driving surge on ‘scale never seen before’ as 71m people displacedThe number of people around the world who were forced to flee their homes leapt by a fifth last year, as a “perfect stor…
続きを読むThe Urdu-speaking ethnic group was stateless for many years after the partition of India – and even now remain marginalised, living in cramped settlement camps and struggling to find formal workOn his first day at high school, Khalid Hussain was accuse…
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