This is a compilation of articles concerning migrant workers in the Middle East.
- Slavery of children and women in Persian gulf countries
- Most citizens of Kazakhstan who fall victim to human trafficking are sent to the UAE
- May 26: “A group of Iranian boys and girls will be sold in an auct…
Archive for the ‘UAE’ Category
Links to devastating cases
December 31st, 2007
Documentation Gulf Slavery Trafficking UAE
UAE: Slavery report
December 31st, 2007
The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) remains a destination country for men and women trafficked for the purpose of involuntary servitude and commercial sexual exploitation. Women from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and the Philippines migrate willingly to the U.A.E. to work as domes...
Quote of the day
November 19th, 2007
“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 UAE is doing nothing to solve the problem.̶...
Bridge collapse in Dubai kills 7 workers and injures 15
November 9th, 2007
UAE Workers Working conditions
From 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 East. More than 40 people were working on the b...
Is Deportation the Answer ?
October 31st, 2007
October 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 United Arab Emirates tool the decision after s...
180 Workers to be Deported
March 29th, 2007
Abusive employers Gulf News UAE Workers
“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 is also a normal thing here in the Gulf. These men, all o...
Meet Zia
March 28th, 2007
The 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 I met while shooting for the photojournalism workshop last August; I went t...
Dubai court jails couple for torturing maid
March 19th, 2007
Abusive employers Gulf Legal cases Rape UAE
The 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 Dubai for three years for torture and sexual harassment, a newspaper reported...
UAE Labor
March 19th, 2007
In 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. This is the only article I could find w...
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