Indians in Kuwait and their complaints
60,608 complaints made to Indian missions around the world, the majority come from Gulf states. Complaints included breach of contract, non-payment of salaries, harassment, abuse, and other exploitative working conditions.
The most complaints were registered in Saudi Arabia, with 12.5k complaints, followed by Kuwait with 12.1k complaints, Qatar with 9.8k complaints, and the UAE with 6.2k. Proportionally, the highest rate of complaints were made in Kuwait.
The number of Indian migrants working in the Gulf is estimated to be 7 million. India’s migrants do tend to have comparatively better access to redress and complaint mechanisms in part because of the services provided by their embassies and in part because of entrenched social networks.he data provided by embassies provide a somewhat rare qualitative account of the scale of abuse in the GCC, but still the numbers provide only a glimpse into the actual conditions of workers .Gulf governments are often tight-lipped regarding migrant data, publishing limited and often unrepresentative statistics, if anything at all; for instance in the UAE repeatedly claims unbelievably low instances of trafficking,despite it being a transit point for Indonesian domestic workers into other banned Gulf states as well as the widespread accounts of forced labour on large projects and in private homes.
Source : Migrant Rights
Kuwait News
- Events in Kuwait
- Now Expats can transfer Visit Visa to Work Visa
- Kuwait to sign MoU for Pakistani manpower’s import
- Detail : No More Visa 22 (Dependent Visa) For Expats Parents
- 500,000 Expats may go – Fees, Taxes … Private Sector Expat Cuts Eyed
- MP Safa’a Al-Hashem wants term limits on expats
- Gorgeous thief woman arrested
- Ministry increases expats fees for Medical
- Young man and a girl arrested for dogging at side of a vehicle
- New rule, ‘Marginal professions’ not eligible for dependent Visa.
- 10 people a day die in Kuwait’s hospitals
- Travel ban, Traffic violations, Residence fines to be collected from police stations
- Kuwaiti stabs a policeman
- Worker steals Kuwaiti sponsor’s KD 600,000
- Indian Embassy warns its citizens
- ‘Ice Breakers’ gum banned in Kuwait
- 56,000 work permits of expats cancelled
- 48 hours jail for speeding motorists
- Alert : Temperature in Kuwait to hit 50 degrees today
- 7 men in ladies dress, arrested in salmiya
- Who’s child is this?
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