Israel ignoring deaths of Thai workers on farms, Human Rights Watch says | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/21/israel-thai-workers-farms-human-rights-watch
After toiling in the sun on an Israeli farm for 17 hours, Praiwan Seesukha, a 37-year-old Thai migrant worker, went to sleep next to other exhausted labourers in a crowded shed. He did not wake up.
Israeli authorities failed to investigate Praiwan’s death and speculation is mounting among rights groups that poor working conditions on Israel’s farms could be behind the death of migrant workers like him.
About 25,000 Thai nationals work in Israel, mostly farming vegetables, fruit and seeds, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published on Wednesday.
An estimated 122 Thai migrant farm workers have died in the country since 2008, including 43 from a heart condition known as sudden nocturnal death syndrome, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The cause of death of 22 migrants is unknown because, as in Praiwan’s case, the authorities failed to investigate.
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