Gujarat earthquake 2001
Kish airlines flight crashed near Sharjah airport in 2004
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Shattered dreams - At least half-a-million expatriate workers are employed in the United Arab Emirates construction sector and their situation is lot more grim than what is presented by the dodge recruitment agencies back home. The majority of workers employed are from the Indian sub-continent. They come with a dream to make a few extra bucks so that they can support their families back home. However, the dreams of these expatriate workers die a premature death in their home countries itself, where they take loans to pay huge amounts (anything between $1,000 and $3,000) to local recruitment agencies to arrange for their employment which is illegal under the UAE law. With the monthly wages of these workers ranging from $164 to $300, their first one or two years salaries are spent on repaying loans. The situation worsens when they go without pay for months. Employers generally provide accommodation called labour camps, which are dormitory style, cramming 8 to 10 people in one room. The loan burden, poor salary, bad living conditions, work pressure and the pain of not seeing their loved ones for years, leaves them stressed out both mentally and physically. Still, more and more people are sucked into this dream trap every year. In December 2006 the UAE and Indian government signed a MOU to resolve the labour problem in this region.
CAption- Murali Rangathan (left) was locked in a room and kept hungry for three days when his recruitment agent didnt receive the commission promised to him . Like most others he was forced by an unscrupulous recruitment agency in India to buy his visa - a £1,300 cost that, legally, his employer should have covered. He was later bailed out by two Good Samaritans seen in the backdrop.
TB-040710-WORKER/ – GN pic by Sankha Kar(for tabloid)
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sunami effected Manatkadu village in Point Pedru, Sri Lanka.
Camp for the people of Tsunami effected Manatkadu village in Point Pedru, Sri Lanka.
A Camp for the people of Tsunami effected Manatkadu village in Point Pedru, Sri Lanka.
Protest in Kolkata, India
Last press conference by St. Mother Teresa at The Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India.
Amartya sen after winning the Nobel prize in economics in 1998Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee in 1997
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Dubai police ladies wing for VIP protection.
Damaged shop near China Town restaurant after a blast, on Al Wahda Street in Sharjah.