“One of the world’s largest construction booms is feeding off of workers in Dubai, but they’re treated as less than human. It’s no surprise that some workers have started rioting in protest. What’s surprising is that the government of the …
Posted in Slavery, UAE, Workers | Leave a commentFrom the BBC: Dubai’s economy has boomed in recent years, fuelled largely by a construction industry reliant on low-paid workers, many from South Asia. The labourers were employed by the Wade Adams Group, a contracting company based in the Middle …
Posted in UAE, Workers, Working conditions | Leave a commentOctober 31st – Kuwait Times Report Four Thousand Asian Laborers in Dubai are reportedly facing expulsion after they staged illegal strikes at the weekend over poor wages and working condition in the booming gulf city state. The authorities in the …
Posted in UAE | Leave a comment“So what?” many would ask. “That happens all the time here in the Arabian Gulf,” some would add. I’m guessing that the fact that THESE 180 workers are to be deported without having been paid for the past 4 months …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, News, UAE, Workers | Leave a commentThe View Point shares with us the following report, written and photographed by Mohamed Somji. Meet Zia: he is from Pakistan and is working as a carpenter for a construction company in Dubai. He is one of several people that …
Posted in UAE | Leave a commentThe following article is reported by Agence France Presse (AFP) and has been republished in The Daily Star – A couple who tried to treat a Filipino maid like an inmate of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison have been jailed in …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, Legal cases, Rape, UAE | Leave a commentIn Pursuit of Justice reports – First batch of workers deported for “violent” protest. A total of 185 (out of 8000 protesters) will be eventually deported. Notice that the article doesn’t describe the “violence” that the workers were engaged in. …
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