News & Reports
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Health and Safety
Deaths by suicide
Nepali migrants struggle with isolation, unmet expectations, and financial burdens
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Business & Human Rights
Former GPZ employee Muhammad Elias dies a year after leaving Bahrain empty-handed
38 years of service and shattered dreams
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Legislation
Migrant workers to be included in UAE’s new unemployment insurance scheme
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UAE
The deaths that haunt me a decade on
A journalist deported from the UAE for reporting on migrant deaths grapples with memories of untold stories
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UAE
Rare labour protests by Deliveroo and Talabat riders in Dubai shed light on gig exploitation
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Saudi Arabia
Huroob cases on the rise as Saudi’s Kafala reforms off to a shaky start
Rife with corruption and kickbacks, lifting Huroob charges is a lucrative business for middlemen
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Sponsorship
Rideshare platforms in Qatar: Big business, poor ethics
Uber and Careem make it easy to violate the labour rights of their drivers
In Brief
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Expanding localisation programmes, Saudi Arabia and Oman have recently issued ministerial decisions that ban migrants from certain jobs in the private sector.
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Saudi Arabia has updated regulations that permit domestic workers to change employers without their current employer’s permission under certain conditions. These conditions remain limited, and in practice, domestic workers still face a number of obstacles in obtaining a new employer.
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Saudi Arabia has recently signed labour agreements to recruit private sector workers and domestic workers from Sierra Leone, Thailand, and Burundi in an effort to fill labour shortages, which are largely due to deployment bans from origin countries that are demanding better protections for their workers.
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In Brief
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Expanding localisation programmes, Saudi Arabia and Oman have recently issued ministerial decisions that ban migrants from certain jobs in the private sector.
Read more -
Saudi Arabia has updated regulations that permit domestic workers to change employers without their current employer’s permission under certain conditions. These conditions remain limited, and in practice, domestic workers still face a number of obstacles in obtaining a new employer.
Read more -
Saudi Arabia has recently signed labour agreements to recruit private sector workers and domestic workers from Sierra Leone, Thailand, and Burundi in an effort to fill labour shortages, which are largely due to deployment bans from origin countries that are demanding better protections for their workers.
Read more
