This clip from the BBC’s World Affairs Editor John Simpson shines a light on the harsh conditions faced by migrant workers in Dubai. Behind Dubai’s dazzling facade lies a story of human misery that the government is anxious to keep away from the eyes of the public. Thousands of undocumented workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh are stranded in the Emirate each year and are unable to return home because they can’t afford flights, have had their passports taken away by corrupt recruitment agents or because they are too terrified of labour cartels to try to leave. As Simpson discovers, many of these workers end up living on the streets and have no idea about how they will return to their home countries.
’200 years ago people who controlled workers used whips to enslave. Now they use immigration law’ Aidan Mcquade Director of London-based Anti Slavery International, which campaigns against bonded labour, told the BBC.
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It’s about time that these Gulf states were revealed for what they are, mafia-run bubbles that stupid Western investors prop up. They are corrupt from the top down and stand behind Islam while treating people as slaves. Stop being afraid of ‘their’ money, it’s yours in any case.
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Right now the government of dubai is trying to solve this issue of slavery, they are now implemented a wage protection system to make sure that the employee get there salary otherwise the company who sponsor them will pay for a fines. Hope there will be no more slavery in uae.