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Subscribe to RSS FeedA man sits in the middle of a busy street. Cars pass by him in the next lane, uncaring, just barely swerving enough out of the way to not inconvenience themselves with hitting him. The man looks into the camera with a resigned look of pain. He is waiting for the inconvenience. This is not an ...
Statements
Leaders from East African domestic worker unions assembled in Tanzania this week to demand their governments do more to safeguard the rights of ...
Working conditions
Migrant workers have been integral to every part of the Gulf's rapid development. Long before and long after the 1970s oil boom, foreign workers have ...
Saudi Arabia
“I was just eight years old when my father left us to work in Saudi Arabia,” said a sober Raymond Castaneda Sumayo, an overseas Filipino worker ...
Working conditions
As the region’s economic climate looks bleak with falling oil prices, companies are taking drastic cost-cutting measures. In Qatar, thousands have ...
UAE
The new changes included a standard work contract, conditions of terminating contract, and procedures for work permits. The Ministry said that decrees...
Trafficking
Social media platforms, especially Facebook pages and groups, have now become marketplaces to subvert the role of recruitment agencies for hiring a ...
Workers
After months of promising a unified contract for workers in the private sector, Kuwait’s Public Authority for Manpower (MPA) finally put the unified...
Working conditions
The GCC is home to hundreds of thousands of migrant domestic workers. From cleaning and cooking, to babysitting and tending to the elderly and ill, ...
Workers
Qatar's failure is due largely to its stubborn stand of not recognising migrant workers as critical players in national building, deserving of equal ...
Workers
In July 2015, Nepal began its ‘free visa, free ticket’ policy, whereby, potential migrants paid no more than NPR20,000 in processing fees, and the...
Saudi Arabia
Last October, the Saudi Ministry of Labor announced a set of new penalties that “aim to improve the status of workers’ rights.” These penalties ...
Qatar
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid bin Ra’ad Al Hussein during a recent visit to Qatar, went soft on the country, commending the...
Workers
Detention conditions invite scrutiny as crackdowns against migrant workers intensify. Workers awaiting deportation are regularly subject to indefinite...
Working conditions
Many Ugandan migrants are being repatriated from GCC countries without their passports. Their travel and identity documents have been confiscated by ...
Working conditions
The International Trade Union Confederation’s latest report estimates that more than 7,000 migrant workers may die by the time the 2022 World Cup ...
Suicide
Earlier this month, a group of Ethiopian women sent out a distress call from a Kuwaiti prison. A cell-phone video circulated on Facebook and ...