http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/06/15/emirati-paper-uae-unfairly-targeted-for-migrant-rights-abuses/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/06/15/emirati-paper-uae-unfairly-targeted-for-migrant-rights-abuses/comment-page-1/#comment-10061 Mideast Youth – Thinking Ahead » Blog Archive » Emirati paper: UAE “unfairly” targeted for migrant rights abuses - Promoting a fierce but respectful dialogue among the highly diverse youth of the Middle East Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:23:15 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=1621#comment-10061 [...] The UAE is subjected to pressure from the U.S., sending countries of workers, international labor organization and international and local human rights organizations to improve its protection of migrant workers, which is extremely poor. The UAE is not based on “social and humanitarian values” but on exploitation of slave labor from the Third World. The UAE is a country where expatriates must be deported if they contract an infection disease, blue-collar workers are placed in segregated and overly populated labor camps, and where Emiratis serve one year in jail for burning a Pakistani man to death, while workers get the same sentence for iron scrap theft. The Gulf News’ perception of Emirati exceptionalism is based on anything but facts. Cross-posted on Migrant Rights. [...] [...] The UAE is subjected to pressure from the U.S., sending countries of workers, international labor organization and international and local human rights organizations to improve its protection of migrant workers, which is extremely poor. The UAE is not based on “social and humanitarian values” but on exploitation of slave labor from the Third World. The UAE is a country where expatriates must be deported if they contract an infection disease, blue-collar workers are placed in segregated and overly populated labor camps, and where Emiratis serve one year in jail for burning a Pakistani man to death, while workers get the same sentence for iron scrap theft. The Gulf News’ perception of Emirati exceptionalism is based on anything but facts. Cross-posted on Migrant Rights. [...]

]]> http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/06/15/emirati-paper-uae-unfairly-targeted-for-migrant-rights-abuses/comment-page-1/#comment-10058 Ispy Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:59:23 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=1621#comment-10058 I have lived and worked in the Middle East for twenty years, and have absolutely no doubts that these stories are true. The Arabs' reliance on cheap labour is astounding with some labourers forced to carry out the most mundane tasks imaginable. I have lived and worked in the Middle East for twenty years, and have absolutely no doubts that these stories are true. The Arabs’ reliance on cheap labour is astounding with some labourers forced to carry out the most mundane tasks imaginable.

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