Govt ban puts Nepali migrant domestic workers at risk ​​​​​​​While the government of Nepal has banned people from working as domestic workers in Gulf countries for more than six years now, around 80 per cent of such workers going abroad have been using informal channels from neighbouring countries including India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Business 20 Jul, 2023
Sold to China as a bride, she came home on brink of death MAZAIKEWALE: Sold by her family as a bride to a Chinese man, Samiya David spent only two months in China. When she returned to Pakistan, the once robust woman was nearly unrecognizable: malnourished, too weak to walk, her speech confused and... Women 12 Dec, 2019
58 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA: Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat while 58 others drowned were receiving care Thursday in Mauritania after one of the deadliest disasters this year among people making... Women 05 Dec, 2019
AP Exclusive: 629 Pakistani girls sold as brides to China LAHORE: Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up... Women 04 Dec, 2019
Pakistani women sold in marriage, then prostitution in China FAISALABAD: At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldn’t bring herself to say what they were doing to her. All the 19-year-old would say was that her new husband — a Chinese man her family sold her...
