Police Col. Niwat Puenguthaisri, who led the gathering, said police were worried for their own safety due to a lack of protective gear, and poor riot control planning.
Labourers also complain about unpaid wages, extortion in the form of having to serve three days unpaid "apprenticeship" to land a job and lack of protective equipment such as gloves, goggles and masks.
Yet workers often face debt bondage, non-existent work contracts, exposure to deadly pesticides, lack of protective equipment, and accommodation without doors, mattresses or drinking water, the DanWatch report says.
From my own experience, it's really the lack of protective equipment in our hospitals in Liberia.
The proximate cause was lack of protective apparel while she worked with a dangerous flammable substance.
According to a California state investigative report that recently became public, the fire and its fatal consequence resulted from inappropriate technique and equipment and lack of protective apparel.
Since we interpreted the topsoil as being lateritic soils with less clayey content, leachate infiltration in the study area is enhanced by the lack of protective layers as shown by the correlation between longitudinal conductance and overburden protective capacity.
The women who come in are very aware of the culture of impunity here and the lack of protective services.
Infant and maternal mortality rate, child poverty The disregard for families and subsequent lack of protective policies are also reflected in our high infant mortality rates.
To protest the lack of protective equipment while risking their lives, nurses and other health workers have gone on strike in Liberia and Sierra Leone, two of the hardest hit countries.
"You see a mixture of ideological drivers and interpersonal drivers, coupled with a lack of protective factors that culminated and crystallized at a certain point in a person's life".
