on right track' over migrant labourers' rights A damning Amnesty report has raised fresh fears about the exploitation of the migrant workers building the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, amid a rising toll of death, disease and misery. The report – published a week after Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter , met the country's emir and declared Qatar was "on the right track" in dealing with...
Reuters photographer Navesh Chitrakar documents a family in Nepal who suffer from congenital hypertrichosis lanuginosa, a very rare disease that causes excessive body hair growth ...
attempts to disrupt preparations have sparked fears of further unrest, while logistical issues loom large over the polls Protests and logistical challenges are heightening tensions before a scheduled 19 November national poll in Nepal that is seen as critical to the country's stability and development, say analysts. Voters are to choose a new constituent assembly (CA), which serves as the country's...
s team and the inhospitality of the mountain. For all its historical significance, The Epic of Everest feels more like an art film than a documentary, thanks to the restoration of the original tinted sequences and a new and richly textured, often sinister score by Simon Fisher Turner . Modern viewers may squirm at the contrast between Noel's reverent approach to the mountain and his condescension toward...
s feared south face, a feat that has amazed his fellow mountaineers This spring the Swiss climber Ueli Steck, one of the world's most accomplished and fastest mountaineers, was thrust into the glare of the media spotlight after he was attacked with two companions by a group of angry Sherpas on Everest. Now Steck, 37, is being talked about for a different reason – a ropeless and lightning-fast solo...
plenty of time' to deal with issue The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has admitted world football cannot "turn a blind eye" to the deaths of hundreds of construction workers in Qatar as the country prepares to host the 2022 World Cup. Under mounting pressure to act over the Guardian's revelations that dozens of Nepalese workers had died this summer in conditions described as "modern-day slavery", Blatter...
NGOs can help people gain manual skills to find work in Nepal, and make them aware of their rights if they go abroad Migrant workers forced to work in Qatar for no pay – video The terrible fate of many Nepalese construction workers in Qatar is of little surprise to me or to anyone I work with here in Nepal. Every day, thousands of men and women head to the Gulf states and India in search of better-paid...