Qatar reforms: Greater job mobility and higher minimum wage

Qatar’s historic labour reforms provide a glimmer of hope, but the journey ahead remains long and strenuous.

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The privilege of a normal life

Why should intimacy, and even family life, be reserved for the privileged nationalities and financially affluent? Read one worker’s reflection on the matter.

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The truth that Saudi’s statistics hide

A deeper look at the statistics and data offered by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health reveals a curiosity.

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Born into uncertainty: Pandemic aggravates the woes of migrant mothers and their newborns

Gulf countries provide no integrated social welfare system for migrants, further endangering the health of mothers and their children amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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From Nigeria to UAE, via many deceptions

Follow one worker’s story as he recounts his experiences working in UAE and undergoing the effects of the pandemic.
 

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Driven to despair: Male domestic workers in Saudi

Since lockdowns were implemented in late March across several parts of Saudi Arabia, job security and accommodation have become uncertain for male domestic workers who make up more than 55% of the total domestic worker population.

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Bahrain’s Amnesty: In name and little else

Bahrain’s initiative, intended to help workers, has been limited at best and, for some cases, has created more vulnerabilities for workers.

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Getting Lucky: Client, not employer, decides how you live

Follow one worker’s journey as he recounts living through the indecent workers’ accommodations.

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Migrant students left in the lurch in Dubai’s ‘free zone’ education

The promise of a work permit and an abundance of part-time job opportunities  lure students to pay steep fees at the many universities and institutions in Dubai’s free zones.

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Restaurant workers driven to starvation in Saudi

As restaurants and shops reopen across Saudi Arabia, migrant workers continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic’s economic fallout.

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Breaking the wall of resistance: Why mere reforms are not enough

Migrant Rights’ Vani Saraswathi analyzes why lower income workers are treated with disregard in some of the richest countries in the world.

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New reforms and ongoing challenges in Saudi’s labour justice system

Saudi Arabia’s reforms to its complaints system has yet to end obstacles to justice where many workers have little access to support and lack clear information on procedures and rights.

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Saudi expatriate exodus is changing the social fabric of cities

Saudi Arabia’s diverse neighborhoods slowly dissipate with many residential units falling vacant and businesses continuing to shutter as expatriates move back home permanently in large numbers.

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HRW Qatar report highlights ongoing wage theft and lack of protections, despite promises

In a report on wage theft in Qatar, Human Rights Watch highlights the scale of violations and the ineffectiveness of the Wage Protection System (WPS).

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