Asian Labour Update

Issue No: 74 January - March 2010

By Noy Natividad

By Issue No: 74 January - March 2010

By Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC)

Malnutrition and Starvation Deaths 

‘Due to malnutrition people started falling sick, in the last five years more than 200 people have died on this (Tea) estate alone.’

‘They do not have any rice, they are hungry and they have to work on empty stomach- so they fall ill and die. All of them died due to hunger and malnutrition. This is how my husband died, he worked without enough food and he died because the tea garden was shut down.’ 

Issue No: 74 January - March 2010

By Manginar Situmorang

Issue No : 73  October - December 2009

‘Will I still have my job next month? Will I still have my job tomorrow? What will I do if I have an accident at work, or if I get pregnant?’ Millions of workers are working daily, contributing to steady profits of their employers without ever knowing the answer to these questions with any certainty – or worse, knowing with a certainty that their jobs and their very health and lives could be disposed in an instant.