Migrant workers

16 Migrant Labourers Crushed to Death by Freight Train in Aurangabad District of Maharashtra

16 migrant labourers hailing from Madhya Pradesh were crushed to death by a goods train in the wee hours on…

May 8, 2020

RTI Enquiry Reveals Lack of Migrant Workers Data with Chief Labour Commissioner: Union Labour Ministry

Union Labour Ministry revealed on Wednesday while RTI enquiry that the Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC) was not in possession of…

May 6, 2020

Migrant Workers Break Into Protests

Migrant workers are the worst hit in India as the lockdown has taken away their only source of income-daily work.…

May 5, 2020

Qatar reserves inhuman treatment to migrant workers during COVID-19, hundreds of Nepalese expelled and detained

Last month Qatar deported hundreds of Nepali workers, most of them building infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, under…

May 4, 2020

94% of COVID-19 cases in Qatar are foreigners, daily stats show

Qatar has made promising commitments to support migrant workers during this unprecedented crisis, including earmarking funds to cover quarantined migrant…

May 4, 2020

Civil society asks Tunisia to release immigration detainees amid COVID-19 pandemic

Several Tunisian organizations, along with Amnesty International, denounced on Friday the detention of several dozen migrants in the Center of…

May 1, 2020

Singapore hasn’t minimized testing migrant workers in dormitories, says Gan Kim Yong

Many health experts have lately criticized the Singapore government for decreasing the number of tests done on migrant laborers lessened…

April 28, 2020

Plight of migrant workers in Singapore, unable to maintain even one-metre distance from each other

Few weeks ago, Singapore was applauded all over the world for its corona prevention  model as the country was quick…

April 24, 2020

World Bank: 40 million internal migrants affected, remittances to fall 23% in India

The COVID-19 lockdown in multiple countries has brought economic activities to a standstill, which has largely impacted the migrant workers…

April 23, 2020

Thailand’s migrant workers in a fix amid global pandemic

With factories shut, borders closed and people at their homes, Thailand has been in lockdown since March in a bid…

April 22, 2020

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