Editing Nepal (section)

===Foreign employment===
[[File:Child_Labour_in_Brick_Kilns_of_Nepal.jpg|thumb|While adults are employed in slavery-like conditions abroad, hundreds of thousands of children in the country are employed as [[Child labour in Nepal|child labour]] (not including the agricultural sector).{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}]]
The rate of unemployment and underemployment exceeds half of the working-age population,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kathmandupost.com/money/2019/04/27/nepals-unemployment-rate-estimated-at-114-percent|title=Nepal's unemployment rate estimated at 11.4 percent|website=Kathmandu Post|language=en|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202212944/https://kathmandupost.com/money/2019/04/27/nepals-unemployment-rate-estimated-at-114-percent|url-status=live}}</ref> driving millions to seek employment abroad, mainly in India, the Gulf, and East Asia. Mostly unskilled, uneducated, and indebted to loan sharks, these workers are swindled by the manpower companies and sent to exploitative employers or war-ridden countries under fraudulent contracts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/world/middleeast/12-hostages-from-nepal-are-executed-in-iraq-a-militant.html|title=12 Hostages From Nepal Are Executed in Iraq, a Militant Group Claims|last=Tavernise|first=Sabrina|date=1 September 2004|work=The New York Times|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=3 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803141717/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/world/middleeast/12-hostages-from-nepal-are-executed-in-iraq-a-militant.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/48523/|title=He narrowly escaped the 2004 Iraq massacre of 12 Nepalis|last=Sharma|first=Bhadra|website=My Republica|language=en|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202215736/https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/48523/|url-status=live}}</ref> They have their passports seized, to be returned when the employer grants them leave or terminates their contracts. Most do not get paid minimum wage,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/basic-minimum-wage-eludes-nepali-migrant-workers/|title=Basic minimum wage eludes Nepali migrant workers|date=9 May 2019|website=The Himalayan Times|language=en-US|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202212954/https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/basic-minimum-wage-eludes-nepali-migrant-workers/|url-status=live}}</ref> and many are forced to forfeit all or part of the wages.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kathmandupost.com/national/2019/10/13/nepali-migrant-workers-returning-home-from-labour-destination-countries-without-wages|title=Nepali migrant workers returning home from labour destination countries without wages|website=Kathmandu Post|language=en|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=13 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013045255/https://kathmandupost.com/national/2019/10/13/nepali-migrant-workers-returning-home-from-labour-destination-countries-without-wages|url-status=live}}</ref> Many Nepalis work in extremely unsafe conditions; an average of two workers die each day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/nepal-receiving-two-dead-migrant-workers-every-day-for-past-seven-years-report/|title=Nepal receiving two dead migrant workers every day for past seven years: Report|date=24 August 2018|website=The Himalayan Times|language=en-US|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202212952/https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/nepal-receiving-two-dead-migrant-workers-every-day-for-past-seven-years-report/|url-status=live}}</ref> Due to restrictions placed on women, many depend on traffickers to get out of the country, and end up victims of violence and abuse.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://asiafoundation.org/2018/06/06/nepalese-labor-migration-a-status-report/|title=Nepalese Labor Migration—A Status Report|work=The Asia Foundation |date=6 June 2018|language=en-US|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202212941/https://asiafoundation.org/2018/06/06/nepalese-labor-migration-a-status-report/|url-status=live |last1=Stayton |first1=Mordecai }}</ref> Many Nepalese are believed to be working under slavery-like conditions, and Nepal spends billions of rupees rescuing stranded workers, on remuneration to the indebted families of the dead, and in legal costs for those arrested in foreign countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia/2018/02/plight-nepal-migrant-workers-180205084756399.html|title=The plight of Nepal's migrant workers|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=1 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201154807/https://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia/2018/02/plight-nepal-migrant-workers-180205084756399.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=ilofe>{{cite web|url=https://www.ilo.org/kathmandu/areasofwork/labour-migration/lang--en/index.htm|title=Labour migration in Nepal (ILO in Nepal)|publisher=ILO|language=en|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202212940/https://www.ilo.org/kathmandu/areasofwork/labour-migration/lang--en/index.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Though millions have raised themselves out of poverty, due to a lack of entrepreneurial skills, the remittance is largely spent on real estate and consumption.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/50427/|title=Sorrows of Nepali migrant workers|last=Mishra|first=Surya Nath|website=My Republica|language=en|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202212937/https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/50427/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=ilofe/>

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