The British government has provided more than £5bn in the past three years to overseas energy and infrastructure projects linked to labour abuses and environmental damage, according to documents and …
Abused migrant worker in Lebanon dreams of justice in rare court case
A migrant worker in Lebanon who says she suffered violent abuse and was forced to work for years without pay is hoping for justice as a trial against her former employer begins. A Beirut …
New report details labor rights abuses at Dubai’s Expo 2020
The legions of workers who built Dubai’s extravagant Expo 2020 site and keep it running face exploitation, grim conditions and a wide range of labor abuses, according to a new …
Slavery Entrenched by Law: Immigrant Workers in the Gulf Story
Siddiq Shehab arrived in the Gulf from his native Mangalore in South India in 1982, carrying an almost empty suitcase. Siddiq left everything behind and travelled to the Gulf to …
3-year-job contracts, mourning, paternal leaves as UAE updates labour laws for private sector
President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued the Federal Decree – Law No.33 of 2021 on the regulation of labour relations in the private sector that …
Lebanon: Domestic worker sues employer in first lawsuit against kafala exploitation
When MH*, 38, travelled to Lebanon from Ethiopia in 2012 to work as a domestic worker, she did not foresee that she would be forced to live in captivity for almost eight …
EXPLAINER: Five reasons why it’s hard to stop migrant abuse in the Gulf
From beatings to unpaid wages, migrant workers face regular abuse in the Gulf – with hundreds of African workers forcibly deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) earlier this year. Several of …
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A death a day: Nepali workers in Saudi
“Every evening for several weeks, 27-year-old Dipak Sinjali called his pregnant wife, Kalpana, from a small room in Saudi Arabia, and asked about her health. The two spoke joyously to …