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Nepalese migrant workers queue to receive official documents in order to leave Nepal from the Labour department in Kathmandu on January 27, 2014. Nearly 200 Nepali migrant workers died in Qatar in 2013, many of them from heart failure, officials said, figures that highlight the grim plight of labourers in the Gulf nation.
June 23, 2021
Five Corridors Project on fair recruitment – launch event
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May 28, 2021
Qatar: Kenyan Labour Rights Activist in Solitary Confinement
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May 13, 2021
Qatar: Fears grow for forcibly disappeared migrants’ rights activist
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Image courtesy of The Workers Cup film
March 10, 2021
Qatar and FIFA should respond to boycott calls with action
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Cremation ceremony for a worker who died while working in the Gulf. Kathmandu, Nepal, 2014.
December 18, 2020
Launch of Vital Signs project
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Credit: Omar Chatriwala
September 9, 2020
Qatar must enforce reforms to kafala system
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Credit: International Domestic Workers Federation
April 10, 2020
Covid-19 and migrant workers in the Gulf
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Credit: The Workers Cup film
December 10, 2019
Liverpool FC and worker deaths in Qatar
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Applicants look at job offers displayed on a glass window of a recruitment agency in Manila in this October 9, 2010 file photo. An average of more than 3,000 workers leave the country daily to work as professionals, nurses, doctors, domestic helpers, seaf
July 1, 2019
Launch of the Five Corridors Project
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