Around 217 Nepali migrant workers lost their lives in Qatar in 2009, according to Nepali Ambassador Surya Nath Mishra. The rapidly-developing Gulf state has long been a favoured destination for Nepali migrant workers, many of whom are employed on construction sites. Cardiac arrest has been named as …
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Migrants Sue Qatari Employer for Holding Passports
December 3rd, 2009
A group of migrant workers in Qatar has taken out a lawsuit against their employer for illegally retaining their passports, according to this story in The Peninsula. The workers repeatedly asked their employer to hand over their passports, which they needed to carry out transactions in Qatar. Howev...
Racist Cartoon: Gulf Times Publishes Complaint Letters
November 26th, 2009
Qatari Paper The Gulf Times has published a selection of complaint letters on yesterday’s Opinion page about a racist cartoon depicting an Asian maid as a ‘child killer’ in Tuesday’s edition. Here is what concerned readers and migrant rights activists had to say: Human rig...
Leading Qatari paper prints a racist anti-migrants cartoon
November 22nd, 2009
The Gulf Times, Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspapers published the following racist cartoon in today’s edition. Instead of portraying maids as the defenseless victims of abuse, which they too often are, they are shown a child-killers. This cartoon is a manifestation of the preval...
Qatari Company Fires 529 Nepalis – and Fails to Pay Wages
September 14th, 2009
A Qatari construction company has fired 529 Nepali workers after running into financial difficulties caused by the global recession, according to this article in Nepalnews. The labourers, recruited in Kathmandu through Nepali brokers Trikon Manpower, had not been paid for four months. Pensaltica, th...
24 Nepalis die in ‘unnatural’ circumstances in Qatar
July 4th, 2009
The past month has seen an unprecedented number of deaths among Qatar’s population of Nepali workers, according to the Nepali embassy in Qatar. 24 Nepali men died between May 1st and June 5th this year as a result of health problems, suicides and work accidents. According to a report by Nepal...
Panel seeks to help domestic workers
September 15th, 2008
The Peninsula, Qatar’s leading English newspaper, recently reported the following hopeful news: Doha – The National Office for Combating Human Trafficking (NOCHT) has launched an initiative to resolve the grievances of domestic helpers and their disputes with their employers, in collabor...
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