The UAE has long been expanding at the expense of migrant workers and their human rights. Their economic development come at a very large price, one that not many people care to address. However Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has done exactly that in his latest article in a tear-jerking story from The Guardian:
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Archive for the ‘UAE’ Category
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: ‘We need slaves to build monuments’
October 10th, 2008
Construction companies violate midday break rule
July 24th, 2008
Abusive employers UAE Workers Working conditions
Every summer in the UAE (where temperatures can reach a staggering 50 degrees Celsius), doctors brace themselves to receiving hundreds of patients suffering from heat exhaustion. Many of the workers, originating from countries where the climate is not as harsh, lose their lives. Although the Minist...
Workers made to live in boxes
July 24th, 2008
Abusive employers UAE Working conditions
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 plight was only discovered after the worker’s refusal to work last weekend, i...
Over 3000 migrant workers arrested in the UAE
July 10th, 2008
Abusive employers UAE Workers Working conditions
Last 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 burnt nearby vehicles, before riot police were brought in from the nearby Em...
Runaway maid’s case referred to prosecution
April 21st, 2008
ABU 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 job. The Abu Dhabi Police have referred the case to the Public Prosecution ...
Maid injured in fall from second floor
April 21st, 2008
ABU 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 named told Khaleej Times the maid was apparently trying to escape from the apar...
Hundreds of workers demand higher wages in UAE
March 21st, 2008
From 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 an unprecedented, oil-fueled economic boom. On T...
1,300 migrant workers strike in Bahrain over pay
February 12th, 2008
Bahrain Gulf Slavery UAE Working conditions
From 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 firm GP Zachariades to work on the Durrat al-Bahrain develo...
Sri Lankan maid hangs herself at Dubai airport
January 25th, 2008
From 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 airport, an Emirati daily said on Thursday. The report came just two days after the oil-...
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