News & Reports
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Recruitment Agencies
Challenges in ensuring ethical recruitment
A closer look at the Bangladesh-Qatar corridor
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Saudi Arabia
Stranded outside Saudi, migrant residents in limbo; confusion over their return
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Bahrain
Migrants in Bahrain face an eviction crisis amid Covid-19 pandemic
Courts are now upholding evictions against workers who have struggled to pay rent due to job and income loss
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Editorial
The limits of advocacy
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Saudi Arabia
Expat tax hits small businesses hard in Saudi
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Legislation
Op-Ed: Qatar could lead the way, but implementation is key
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Business & Human Rights
Emirates Group company Transguard abandons its workers, drives them deeper into debt bondage
A large number of Nepali workers, who went to work in the UAE after paying hefty recruitment fees and other costs with the hope of improving their livelihood, are instead returning with large debts.
In Brief
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Oman announced on 15 October that it will not allow expats whose work permits expired while they were stuck abroad from returning to the Sultanate.
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Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Passports announced on Friday that it will automatically extend the validity of final-exit visas for expatriates in the Kingdom until 31 October 2020 free of charge.
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Bahrain’s Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs announced yesterday that it will renew a three-month extension of all visit visas for expatriates automatically and free of charge until 21 January 2021.
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The Latest Statistics
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92%
of domestic workers are not in possession of their passports, according to the Kuwait Society for Human Rights.
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63.5 hours
weekly average for domestic workers in Saudi, the second highest in the world.
Migrant-Rights.org Campaigns
Migrant Worker Recruitment to the Gulf: Challenges and Solutions
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Oman announced on 15 October that it will not allow expats whose work permits expired while they were stuck abroad from returning to the Sultanate.
Read more -
Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Passports announced on Friday that it will automatically extend the validity of final-exit visas for expatriates in the Kingdom until 31 October 2020 free of charge.
Read more -
Bahrain’s Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs announced yesterday that it will renew a three-month extension of all visit visas for expatriates automatically and free of charge until 21 January 2021.
Read more
