In what could be the one of the worst cases of poor accommodation ever reported in the UAE, over 200 labourers in the Emirati city of Dubai were discovered to be living in cardboard boxes for over three months. Their …
Posted in Abusive employers, UAE, Working conditions | Leave a commentLast Friday, over 3,000 migran workers at a factory in the Emirati city of Ras Al Khaimah were detained for rioting. The workers, incited by the poor quality of food they were provided with, wreaked havoc in the factory and …
Posted in Abusive employers, UAE, Workers, Working conditions | Leave a commentABU DHABI — The Filipina housemaid E.F., who jumped from the second floor in an attempt to escape from her employer told investigators that she was trying to run away because she was over-worked and wanted to seek a better …
Posted in Housemaids, Legal cases, UAE | 5 CommentsABU DHABI — A 40-year-old Filipina housemaid suffered serious injuries and was admitted to a hospital after she fell from the second floor of a building in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. A police official who did not want to be …
Posted in Housemaids, UAE, Women | Leave a commentFrom the Wall Street Journal (and via The Emirates Economist blog) – SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — Protests and violent skirmishes over rising prices are hitting parts of the Middle East, a region already beset by strife but otherwise enjoying …
Posted in UAE, Workers | Leave a commentFrom the AFP: MANAMA (AFP) — Around 1,300 migrant workers helping to build a luxury coastal development in Bahrain have gone on strike to demand higher wages, a company official said on Sunday. The workers are employed by the contracting …
Posted in Bahrain, Gulf, Slavery, UAE, Working conditions | Leave a commentFrom Lankan Business online: DUBAI, Jan 24, 2008 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan maid, in transit on her way home from Kuwait to see her children for the first time in three years, hanged herself in a toilet at Dubai …
Posted in Housemaids, Suicide, UAE | Leave a commentThis 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 – …
Posted in Documentation, Gulf, Slavery, Trafficking, UAE | Leave a commentThe 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. …
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