News & Reports
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Bahrain
“We Are All Going To Die Here”
150 workers from Orlando construction company in Bahrain, victims of wage-theft, now contend with Covid-19 infections
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Women
GBV in the World of Work: Lived Experiences of Migrant Women in the Middle East
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Covid-19
Mecca’s migrants face economic uncertainty as religious tourism continues to be suspended
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Business & Human Rights
How Qatar Can Learn From Qatar Foundation
And How QF Should Walk The Talk
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Trafficking
Bahrain must not retain its Tier-1 status in TIP report
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Workers
Ready to Fly
In this three-part story, Noah recounts his experience of leaving home and moving to Doha, Qatar.
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World Cup
Workers on WC site unpaid for months, despite authorities being aware
In Brief
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In Kuwait, Oil Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel said recently that migrants will no longer be hired in Kuwait’s oil sector and that contracts with migrants will be reduced. This follows last week’s statement by Kuwaiti Prime Minister to reduce the expatriate population 70% to 30%.
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Qatar’s Ministry of Finance has instructed government-owned entities to cut employment costs of non-nationals by 30% starting from 1 June 2020.
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Nearly 500 workers of Emirates-based AMB-Hertel protested against months of non-payment in May. AMB-Hertel is an Emirati subsidiary of the French multinational Altrad. According to Le Monde, the group has 15,000 employees in the Gulf, and it’s founder, Mohed Altrad, is a candidate for mayor of Montpellier.
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The Latest Statistics
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92%
of domestic workers are not in possession of their passports, according to the Kuwait Society for Human Rights.
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63.5 hours
weekly average for domestic workers in Saudi, the second highest in the world.
Migrant-Rights.org Campaigns
Migrant Worker Recruitment to the Gulf: Challenges and Solutions
View campaignIn Brief
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In Kuwait, Oil Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel said recently that migrants will no longer be hired in Kuwait’s oil sector and that contracts with migrants will be reduced. This follows last week’s statement by Kuwaiti Prime Minister to reduce the expatriate population 70% to 30%.
Read more -
Qatar’s Ministry of Finance has instructed government-owned entities to cut employment costs of non-nationals by 30% starting from 1 June 2020.
Read more -
Nearly 500 workers of Emirates-based AMB-Hertel protested against months of non-payment in May. AMB-Hertel is an Emirati subsidiary of the French multinational Altrad. According to Le Monde, the group has 15,000 employees in the Gulf, and it’s founder, Mohed Altrad, is a candidate for mayor of Montpellier.
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