{"id":54119,"date":"2023-04-06T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/apr\/06\/families-mourn-devastating-suicide-rates-among-nepals-migrant-workers"},"modified":"2023-04-06T19:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:38:20","slug":"families-mourn-devastating-suicide-rates-among-nepals-migrant-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54119","title":{"rendered":"Families mourn \u2018devastating\u2019 suicide rates among Nepal\u2019s migrant workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 12% of Nepali migrant workers who die abroad, mainly in the Gulf and Malaysia, take their own lives<\/p>\n<p>When Pawan Kumari\u2019s husband called one morning from Kuwait, where he had gone to work nine months earlier, there was no reason to worry. They would call each other two or three times a day and talk about how, if he could earn enough money, they would send their boys to a good school and pay off their debts.<\/p>\n<p>On that day in January she was busy washing clothes, so her husband, Rajiv Kumar Ray, spoke to their two young sons instead. But when Pawan called him back, he didn\u2019t pick up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/apr\/06\/families-mourn-devastating-suicide-rates-among-nepals-migrant-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 12% of Nepali migrant workers who die abroad, mainly in the Gulf and Malaysia, take their own livesWhen Pawan Kumari\u2019s husband called one morning from Kuwait, where he had gone to work nine months earlier, there was no reason to worry. They woul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,744,212,241,1888,61,1409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-mental-health","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-nepal","category-remittances","category-south-and-central-asia","category-suicide-rates"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54120,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54119\/revisions\/54120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}