Tag: Migrant workers
Caritas: India’s migrants, poor farmers most affected by pandemic
Caritas research focused on people's basic needs, livelihood, their rights and entitlements, discrimination, and exploitation of migrants
Nearly 200 migrant workers killed on India’s roads during coronavirus lockdown
In one case, a speeding bus ran over and killed six migrant workers as they walked home
South Asia scrambles to bring home crisis-hit migrant workers
About 40 million South Asians work overseas, mainly in the oil-rich Gulf, sending vital remittances back home
SPOTLIGHT: Malaysia detains thousands of migrants in sting operation
Authorities use ruse of screening for coronavirus to raid apartment complexes in Kuala Lumpur for undocumented migrants and prep them for deportation
Taiwan schools Philippines on civil liberties, sovereignty
Taiwan claims that foreign workers' rights and interests are protected by relevant laws and regulations, including freedom of speech
Migrants jobless and trapped under Thai coronavirus lockdown
Htoo Gay War quit her job as a domestic worker in January because her employer refused to allow her to take one day off...
India’s migrant workers fall through cracks in coronavirus lockdown
For the country’s estimated 140 million migrant laborers, the pandemic is much more than a threat to their health — it endangers their very economic survival
Malaysia’s lockdown leaves foreign workers going hungry
Millions of migrant workers face uncertainty as employers stop pay and the govt tries to shift responsibility elsewhere
Pandemic compounds migrant workers misery in India
Jesuit priest says the main concern now for poor migrants was hunger
Cambodian migrant workers return home to bleak prospects
Thousands have left Thailand due to the COVID-19 crisis
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