Faizal Bin Yahya is Senior Research Fellow in the Governance and Economy Department of the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Faizal was previously an assistant professor in the South Asian Studies Program at the University, and simultaneously was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies from 2008 to 2009. Faizal served as a member of the Singaporean Delegation to the United Nations in 1998 and participated in multilateral meetings on pertinent environmental issues such as climate change. Faizal was appointed as a Board Member to the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore in 2019. Faizal was an Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholar and obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Sydney, Australia
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As Hindu group built world-class temple in N.J., a group of Indian workers alleges they were exploited
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They were allegedly recruited as cheap labor to help build a temple.
Members of the lowest-rung of India’s caste system, known as Dalits, were brought to New Jersey to help build a magnificent Hindu temple in Robbinsville, working behind the scenes to perform what they allege to be grueling and often dangerous work.
“What is ironic here is that those who are forbidden to enter into the Hindu Temples in India for the reason of impurity and pollution are brought into the U.S. with religious visa to build a temple,” said Ben Chinnappan, president and executive director of Dalit Solidarity, a U.S.-based organization advocating for Dalit rights.
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