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our top stories of the year
Special Reports
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Lived Experiences of Migrant Women in Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait ([link removed])
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In one-to-one interviews and focus groups, female migrant workers in Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain recounted their experiences with violence in the workplace and how they navigated formal and informal grievance mechanisms. Using Feminist Participatory Action Research methods, the report’s findings and recommendations are predominantly those of the participants.
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Faulty Fixes: A Review of Recent Amnesties and Recommendations for Improvement ([link removed])
Factsheets & Know Your Rights Leaflets
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Factsheet: ([link removed]) Wages and Payments in the UAE ([link removed])
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A short overview of the key regulations governing wages, payments, and entitlements in Qatar.
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Know Your Rights - ([link removed]) Domestic Workers in the UAE ([link removed]) ([link removed])
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Comparison of Kafala and Labour Laws across the GCC states ([link removed])
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Factsheet:Wages and Payments in Qatar ([link removed])
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A short overview of the key regulations governing wages, payments, and entitlements in Qatar.
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Know Your Rights - Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia ([link removed])
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Videos
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** Working at Shisha lounges: A Slow death? ([link removed])
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Across the Gulf states, shisha cafes are the most popular venues for socialising for both families and friends. Despite several campaigns, there’s little or no cognisance of the harmful secondhand smoking effects. Amongst those co-opted against their will to imbibe the toxic fumes are the largely migrant staff in these restaurants.
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** The Matloobs ([link removed])
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Matloob means 'wanted' in Arabic. But in their version of pidgin Arabic, it means those accused falsely of a crime. Two men recount their ordeal in Saudi Arabia.
Reports
Qatar announces abolishment of the Kafala system (again) ([link removed])
The legislation, expected to come into force from January 2020, if implemented will abolish exit permits for all migrants and remove NOC requirements for changing jobs.
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Non-payment of wages: An issue on the rise for low-income migrant workers in Bahrain ([link removed])
The economic downturn hit Bahrain’s construction sector hard and exacerbated the already rampant practice of delayed and unpaid wages. Costs and losses are passed on to the most vulnerable – the migrant workers at the end of the supply chain.
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** Belonging in transience: The multi-generational migrants in Saudi Arabia ([link removed])
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Summer outdoor work bans end across the GCC, but heat stress continues ([link removed])
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The forgotten farmers of Bahrain ([link removed])
A lack of awareness of their rights, and a perceived lack of options, keep Bahrain's agricultural workers in a rut
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Challenging the monopoly of live-in domestic work ([link removed])
The predominant model of employment in the region is the live-in arrangement, where millions of workers are subject to the stranglehold of an individual employer and their household. What are the viable alternatives to this prevalent model?
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Musaned’s promises and deliveries
A two-part overview of the online system that hopes to reform domestic workers recruitment in Saudi Arabia. [part one ([link removed]) | part two ([link removed] ) ]
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Overview: Administrative Detention of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia ([link removed])
A brief review of the laws and available data pertaining to Saudi Arabia's detention of migrant workers with irregular status.
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Kafala for the poor, freedom for the rich ([link removed])
Saudi’s ‘Privileged iqama’ is the latest in the GCC trend to relax the sponsorship system for those with privilege.
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Paradox of empowerment: The high costs of economic freedom ([link removed])
The following observations are from conversations on migration with migrants and their families in Uganda. The nature of these conversations are not exclusive to Uganda but echo similar experiences of other labour-sending countries across Africa and Asia.
New in 2020
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Mapping of Domestic Workers Rights and Resources ([link removed])
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In Troubled Waters: The Fishing Sector in the GCC ([link removed])
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This white paper examines the living and working conditions of migrant fishermen in the GCC, and the regulatory framework that governs the sector.
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