Nepal’s coal miners lose their right to workplace safety and dignity as they struggle to earn a living
Abhash Budhathoki
March 20, 2022

Yam Bahadur Gharti from Ghorahi in Dang looks at the city’s northern hills with distaste. Like other coal miners from Ghorahi, Gharti has spent most of his life at coal mines on the hill.

He did it to support his family and thought he would have done something good by now. But, three decades on, Gharti is still doing what he did when he was a teenager. He lost his youth to the mines and fears his youngest son, who has recently started going to the mines, will lose his. Click here to read more.

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