12 March 2014, Al Jazeera / Fault Lines From India to Dubai and Afghanistan, we probe the system that brings foreign labourers to US military bases abroad. Today there are nearly 40,000 foreign contract workers on bases in the US military’s Central Command. Hailing primarily from India and Nepal, these labourers serve American troops in […]
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14 November 2014, New Republic The ugly business of how military contractors find their workers In September 2012, President Obama issued an executive order asserting a zero tolerance policy for government contractors who violated human trafficking laws. He specifically targeted recruitment fees that workers in southeast Asia frequently pay for work with military contractors in
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17 November 2014, The Daily Star Languishing in Iraqi city with insufficient food, water; ambassador says they might be sent back soon. The 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers who claim to have been abducted by some locals are still passing their days in misery inside an old building in Najaf city of Iraq. The Bangladeshis were
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20 July 2014, EIN News Desk Aluva (Kerala, July 20: Workers from Kerala who have returned from strife torn Iraq, held a protest on Saturday against the Indian recruitment agency M.P Dominic and Co. for duping them of their money. A protest was held outside the company’s office by 17 workers who had returned to
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20 July 2014, The Daily Star, Bangladesh Returning from Iraq with empty hands, 19 Bangladeshi workers today staged a sit-in in front of Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment since this morning, demanding compensation from their recruitment agencies. The workers along with eight others went to Iraq through four Bangladeshi recruitment agencies between January
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Sarabjit Pandher, The Hindu, 8 July 2014 A group of 28 Iraq returnees on Monday filed a complaint with the Chandigarh police against a manpower consultancy firm that also doubles as a travel agency for ‘duping and causing them substantial financial losses’. They have also threatened to protest in front of the Punjab Assembly, which
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Fawaz Shaheen, Times of India, 5 July 2014 As the freedom of trapped Indian nurses in Iraq generates a collective sigh of relief, their story also underlines a rarely discussed issue; the abuse and exploitation of Indian migrant workers in Gulf and Arab countries. Most Gulf countries require foreign workers to have a ‘kafeel’ or
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