Pramod Acharya is an award-winning Nepali investigative journalist and documentary producer.
He covers the issues of human rights, forced labour, human trafficking, climate change, immigration, and other social justice issues. His investigations have uncovered the exploitation of Asian migrant workers in Qatar’s construction sector, the abuse and harassment of human trafficking victims in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, the plight of imprisoned migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, and the operations of human trafficking rings in Asia and the Arab world.
In 2023, Acharya investigated the abusive and exploitative labour practices at the operations of Amazon, McDonald's, Chuck E Cheese, and other well-known brands in the Middle East. In 2022, his video story for The New York Times highlighted the exploitation of Nepalese migrant workers during Qatar's World Cup construction frenzy. In his BBC documentary “The Gulf: Killer Heat,” he investigated the deaths, injuries, and life-threatening diseases of Nepali migrant workers in the Middle East. Acharya’s work has been published in various other international media outlets, including The Guardian UK/US, NBC News, Reuters, CNN, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Channel 4, Open Democracy, Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Times, Sky Sports Television, Migrant-Rights.org, and others.
His reporting won awards and recognition from several prestigious international organisations such as Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW), International Labor Organizations (ILO), Picture of the Year International (POY), One World Media (OWM), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), and others. Previously, Acharya worked as a data reporter at Investigate Midwest (previously known as the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting), a nonprofit newsroom in Illinois, focusing on agribusiness-related topics such as farm laborers’ wage theft, food insecurity, pesticide use, and health hazards of agricultural workers.
In Nepal, Acharya worked both as a reporter and an assistant editor at the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), where he reported and edited extensively stories on modern slavery, environmental degradation, public health, and education. As an editor, he led a team of Nepali reporters to collaborate with international journalists on cross-border investigations into money laundering and financial crime.
