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Investigation · 9 months
Cover story · Labour migration
The debt that follows you to Doha.
We traced 212 recruitment contracts from 14 districts. In 71% of them, workers paid illegal fees averaging NPR 3.4 lakh, and they were still paying off the loans two years later.
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