News & Reports
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Bahrain
Protesting migrant workers in Bahrain’s O&G sector face abuse and threats
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Detention & Deportation
Over 80,000 undocumented migrants in Saudi arrested in recent raids
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Health and Safety
Migrant workers suffer most in Kuwait’s extreme heat
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Detention & Deportation
What happens when no one’s looking?
Malcolm Bidali reflects on the last 12 weeks of detention, intimidation, and being charged for a ‘crime’ of highlighting the plight of lower-income migrant workers like himself
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Recruitment
Project visas misused to bypass QVC regulations
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Business & Human Rights
Qatar’s luxury hotels fall well short of protecting rights of migrant workers
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Covid-19
The emergence of the vaccine passport
Origin countries scramble to meet vaccination requirements, as prospective and stranded migrant workers struggle without jobs
In Brief
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Bahrain recently launched the second phase of its “Wage Protection System”. The second phase will cover businesses with 50 to 499 employees.
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Kenyan labour rights activist, Malcolm Bidali, leaves Qatar after paying a hefty fine as a penalty for publishing “false information” under the country’s cybercrime laws. The 28 year-old is a security guard, blogger and activist, who has been vocal about the plight of migrant workers like himself, and has written for a number of online platforms.
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Bahrain’s Central Investigation Department launched two new hotlines (17710652) and (555) to report cases involving sponsors who charge migrant workers to transfer sponsorship and issues relating to human trafficking crimes, respectively.
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In Brief
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Bahrain recently launched the second phase of its “Wage Protection System”. The second phase will cover businesses with 50 to 499 employees.
Read more -
Kenyan labour rights activist, Malcolm Bidali, leaves Qatar after paying a hefty fine as a penalty for publishing “false information” under the country’s cybercrime laws. The 28 year-old is a security guard, blogger and activist, who has been vocal about the plight of migrant workers like himself, and has written for a number of online platforms.
Read more -
Bahrain’s Central Investigation Department launched two new hotlines (17710652) and (555) to report cases involving sponsors who charge migrant workers to transfer sponsorship and issues relating to human trafficking crimes, respectively.
Read more
