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- Employment, Environment, Global development, India, Marine life, Oceans, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, Women, Women's rights and gender equality
‘A dying art’: India’s female seaweed divers look to a brighter future for their girls
For generations, mothers in Tamil Nadu have taught their daughters the dangerous trade. But while their work h…
- Employment, Global development, Global health, Middle East and North Africa, Migration, Nepal, Qatar, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Going abroad cost me my health’: Nepal’s migrant workers coming home with chronic kidney disease
Men under 40 are coming home in need of dialysis, after working in intense heat with limited access to drinkin…
- 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…
- Business, Commodities, Employment, Food, Global development, Inequality, Inequality and development, Poverty, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tea, World news
‘We give our blood so they live comfortably’: Sri Lanka’s tea pickers say they go hungry and live in squalor
Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make…
- Business, Climate crisis, Cricket, Drought, Employment, Environment, Global development, India, Kashmir, South and Central Asia, Sport, Travel & leisure, Trees and forests, World news
Not seeing the trees for the wood: willow shortage could spell end for Kashmir’s cricket bat industry
The climate crisis and farmers opting to grow more lucrative timber is putting many bat-makers in Kashmir out …
- Bangladesh, Employment, Global development, Human rights, India, Inequality and development, Migration, Migration and development, Pakistan, Refugees, South and Central Asia, World news
‘We have a right to live in dignity’: Biharis in Bangladesh fight for equality – and jobs
The Urdu-speaking ethnic group was stateless for many years after the partition of India – and even now remain…
- Asia Pacific, Business, Employment, Myanmar, Retail industry, Rights issues, South and Central Asia, Supermarkets, Tesco, Thailand, UK news, World news
Thai police raid former Tesco clothing supplier at centre of sweatshop claims
VK Garment factory in Mae Sot is subject of a UK lawsuit against the supermarket from 130 ex-workersThai polic…
- Asia Pacific, Business, Employment, Forced labour, Myanmar, Rights issues, South and Central Asia, Tesco, Thailand, World news
Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’
Exclusive: Supermarket faces landmark lawsuit in the UK from 130 former workers alleging negligenceWorkers tel…
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‘They are invisible’: the migrant workers struggling in wake of India’s Covid response
As a new Guardian documentary explores the impact of one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, we speak to some …
- Bangladesh, Construction industry, Employment, Global development, Human rights, Inequality, Law, Middle East and North Africa, Nepal, Qatar, South and Central Asia, Sport, Workers' rights, World Cup, World news
Revealed: migrant workers in Qatar forced to pay billions in recruitment fees
Guardian investigation finds labourers – including those on World Cup-related projects – were left with huge d…
- Africa, Bahrain, Business, Climate crisis, Employment, Energy industry, Environment, Global development, Human rights, India, Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, UK news, Workers' rights, World news
Britain hands billions to projects linked to labour abuse and climate damage
UK Export Finance used £5.24bn of taxpayer money to fund overseas energy and infrastructure ventures – despite…
- Employment, Global development, India, Inequality, Narendra Modi, Society, South and Central Asia, Unemployment, Workers' rights, World news
Low turnout for India’s national two-day strike as 50 million join protests
Unions say strike over ‘anti-worker’ government policies a success despite limited impact, with far fewer than…
- Employment, Europe, European Union, Farming, Global development, Human rights, Inequality, Migration, Nepal, Portugal, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
Fruit pickers lured to Portugal by the dream of a ‘raspberry passport’
Farm workers from south Asia describe exploitative conditions at the heart of Europe’s soft fruits industryWor…
- Business, Coronavirus, Employment, Global development, India, Manufacturing sector, South and Central Asia, World news
India’s ‘pencil village’ counts the cost of Covid school closures
Ukhoo village in Kashmir supplies 90% of wood used in the country’s pencils, but the industry, a major employe…
- Employment, Global development, Heritage, India, Protest, Rail transport, Rail travel, South and Central Asia, Travel, World news
‘Renting the Taj Mahal’: the fight to save Darjeeling’s toy train
India’s tiny train has puffed up the Himalayas since 1881 but now the world heritage site is under threat“Darj…