Day: November 19, 2021

Industry

More leeway to the ship recycling industry from the environmental authorities in Bangladesh triggers criticism

  • ·November 19, 2021
Published by
Global Voices
Huge ship carcasses pollute the environment: Shipwreck seen in Chattogram, Bangladesh. Image from Flickr by Stéphane M. Grueso. CC BY-SA 2.0 What happens when a ship dies? They are sent to hazardous graveyards in places like India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan to be dismantled and sold as scrap. However, the process is labour intensive and lacks safety measures, making it one of the world's dangerous industries. The environmental authorities in Bangladesh recently downgraded the status of the ship recycling industry from red to orange, meaning that ship-breakers will no longer be required to...
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General

50 migrant workers died in Qatar in 2020: report

  • ·November 19, 2021
Published by
Al-Araby
Fifty migrant workers died in Qatar last year and over 500 were seriously injured, the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) said Friday, as the Gulf nation readies for the 2022 World Cup. The report comes amid criticism of working conditions for hundreds of thousands of migrant labourers -- including those who built the stadiums for the World Cup. The ILO report, entitled "One is too many", said that the top cause of fatalities were falls -- with most happening at the workplace. Qatar, which has made a series of labour reforms since being selected to host the football tournament, welco...
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