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Explainer: 10 things about free-visa-free-ticket for Nepali migrant workers

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7 September 2015, Kathmandu Post Free-visa-free-ticket is a newly enforced provision of the Government of Nepal that came into effect from July 8 this year. It basically obligates the employers from labour receiving countries to bear cost of visa processing and air ticket to hire workers from Nepal. Until now, most migrant workers took hefty […]

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Govt decision to waive visa fee, airfare gets vote of confidence from workers

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9 July 2015, Kathmandu Post KATHMANDU, JUL 09 – As much the government decision to waive visa fee and air fare from the workers visiting the Gulf states and Malaysia has enraged the foreign employment agencies in the country, it has also brought equal measure of joy and relief among the aspiring migrant workers and

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Gulf country job racket busted, three held with 200 passports

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31 January 2015, Press Trust of India Police today busted a Gulf country job racket by arresting three persons and seized over 200 passports from them. Based on credible information, the sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, (North Zone) nabbed the agents who were cheating the unemployed youth and carrying the business of recruitment for deployment

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India reins in recruitment firms but malpractices still occur

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31 December 2014, Gulf Times A number of rules are in place to protect the interest of workers going abroad, says a Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs official. With increasing focus on problems faced by people seeking overseas jobs and those already working abroad, the government of India has adopted several measures, most important among

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Gulf Countries: Increase Migrant Worker Protection, Says HRW

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22 November 2014, EurasiaReview.com Labor ministers from Gulf and Asian countries meeting on November 26 and 27, 2014, should improve labor law protection, reform abusive immigration policies, and increase dialogue with trade unions and nongovernmental groups, 90 human rights organizations and unions said today. Millions of contract workers from Asia and Africa, including an estimated

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Bangladeshi Workers Organize to Protect Their Most Valuable Export: Themselves

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1 October 2014, The Nation & Foreign Policy in Focus Excerpt: In Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries on the planet, more than 157 million people live on about 57,000 square miles of land. That’s a population greater than Russia’s living in a country smaller than the state of Illinois. We heard over

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