Sentence examples for labourers engaged from inspiring English sources

The human rights organisation, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant labourers engaged in a huge construction boom, said "little has changed in law, policy and practice" since the government promised limited reforms 12 months ago.

They were workers and agricultural labourers engaged in service professions.

Many of these respondents were daily wage labourers engaged in 'zari' work (embroidery) and other manual occupations.

"Bricks" produced by Limkokwing University's Alice and Iwan highlights the plight of thousands of child labourers engaged in the brick industry while The One Academy's Chua Tor Siang, Lew Chai Ling and Chang Siew Junn designed "Child for Sale" to draw attention to exploitation of children through early marriage, child labour and war.

A workforce of labourers was engaged to construct observatories for the astronomers, and assist in the surveying.

Recently Fairfax Media in Australia published an investigation into the alleged ill-treatment of thousands of construction labourers hired by contractors engaged by the Adani group to build luxury houses on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

The world's 250 million child labourers, most of them engaged in extreme and hazardous forms of work, are being robbed of their fundamental rights -- not only the right to develop to the fullest through education, but "the right to a childhood," Ms. Bellamy told the 40-nation International Conference on Child Labour in Oslo.

Some 180 million children aged 5 17 (or 73 per cent of all child labourers) are believed to be engaged in the worst forms of child labour, including working in hazardous conditions such as in mines and with dangerous machinery.

Last year, the ILO estimated there were 215 million child labourers; 115 million of them engaged in hazardous work.

Almost one-third of child labourers are thought to be engaged in hazardous work that threatens their health, safety or emotional well-being.

It also dulled pain, quelled appetites, blurred time and relaxed muscles, making it equally desirable for coolies, manual labourers who spent long, desperate hours engaged in back-breaking work with minimal food.