Kathmandu, June 6
The Amnesty International says Nepal has failed to protect Nepali migrant workers from exploitation by unscrupulous recruitment agents.
The international human rights organisation said the government failed to keep its repeated promises to prevent cheating on the workers going abroad.
Consequently, around two million Nepalis working in the Gulf and Malaysia are at risk of forced labour, the organisation said in a report released in Kathmandu today.
“All over Nepal, unscrupulous recruiters are getting away with destroying lives, illegally charging aspiring job-seekers exorbitant fees to get jobs abroad, and then abandoning them overseas when things go wrong,” said the AI Deputy Director James Lynch.
Total 127 migrant workers and government officials had been interviewed while preparing the report.
