Abu Dhabi is planning to build three new cities to shelter foreign low-income laborers and workers of the construction industry. The plan is to build enough houses to accommodate 400,000 people and are geared at single and double room occupancy. According to Arabian Business:
The cities have bee…
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Caution in Abu Dhabi’s New Cities for Workers
November 12th, 2009
The “hidden victims” of recession in Dubai: migrant workers
November 7th, 2009
The Financial Times published a report earlier this week about the fate of illegal migrant workers in Dubai since the financial crisis started in late 2008. The story described the living conditions of these workers, who stay in overflowing and cockroach-ridden rooms, trying to save as much money as...
UAE: Two Men Conspire to Sell a Pregnant Maid into Prostitution
October 27th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases News Trafficking UAE
Gulf News reports that a Bangladeshi laundryman plead guilty yesterday in a Dubai court to helping his friend, A.N., sell a 24-year-old Bangladeshi housemaid to a pimp. A.N. is also facing charges for attempted human trafficking, but was not present at the court. The maid was carrying A.N.’s b...
UAE: Two Bangladeshi Men Charged with Kidnapping and Raping Filipino Maids
October 26th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases Rape Trafficking UAE
Two Bangladeshi men went on trial in Dubai yesterday for kidnapping two Filipino maids, gang-raping one of them and trying to force them into prostitution, Khaleej Times reported today. The housemaids were walking around Abu Dhabi when three Bangladeshi men pulled up next to them in a car and forced...
Three Emiratis Arrested for Raping and Murdering Housemaids
October 20th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases News Rape UAE
Three young Emiratis were arrested by police in Fujairah for allegedly gang-raping two housemaids and murdering one of them, Khaleej Times reported today. One of the maids allowed her 15-year-old employer to invite his friends, aged 19 and 23, to have a night with her and another maid, a Sri Lankan ...
UN Special Rapporteur Asks UAE to End Racism
October 18th, 2009
Githu Muigai, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism and xenophobia, ended a recent 5-day visit to the UAE by calling for an end to discrimination against the country’s population of migrant workers. He voiced concerns about the system of granting citizenship, the problem of hu...
Radisson CSR for migrant workers – kind gesture or missing the point?
October 11th, 2009
Abusive employers General Gulf UAE Workers
An appeal backed by Radisson Hotels raised DH 1 million for construction workers during the month of Ramadan, according to this press release. The ‘Shoe Box Appeal 2009′ called on school children in the Emirates to donate gift boxes filled with basic items such as toothbrushes, nail clip...
UAE: 13-year-old girl and two women from Iraq forced into prostitution
October 9th, 2009
Legal cases News Trafficking UAE
The Khaleej Times reported today about a horrible case of human trafficking and child exploitation in the UAE. An Iraqi couple was charged with human trafficking and running a prostitution ring after the police found in their apartment in Sharjah two women and one girl who were engaged in prostituti...
Passport Confiscation Still Rife in Middle East
September 13th, 2009
The practice of withholding the passports of migrant workers is still rife among employers in the Middle East, according to this recent post by blogger and M-R.org reader Sreekrishnan. Construction workers and maids are routinely forced to hand over their passports to their employer when they start...
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