Arab nations have ramped up their recruitment of migrant workers, capitalizing on the global surge in demand for labour ...
Malaysia and Qatar were also identified as major destinations. However, the report highlights a worrying trend concerning female migrant workers. The number of women migrating has sharply ...
Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Fifa to take a stance against the “abuse of migrant workers” in Qatar, the host for the 2022 World Cup. Amnesty International claims in a ...
Like Qatar, Saudi Arabia operates under the abusive labor sponsorship system known as kafala, where migrant workers pay large recruitment fees, often have passports taken and wages stolen by ...
Migrant workers leave their homeland with dreams of securing a better future for their families, often financed by hefty ...
But he was not talking about Qatar, whose World Cup was plagued and stained by similar ills. He was talking about migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, which on Wednesday was confirmed as host of the ...
PM Modi visited the workers' camp in Doha, Qatar. Earlier in 2015, PM Modi visited a labour camp in Abu Dhabi where he highlighted India’s concern for the welfare of its migrant workers.
By awarding the 2034 men’s World Cup to Saudi Arabia, a country with an abysmal human rights record, FIFA sold its soul, ...
Advertisement The charity has been tracking reports of abuse of migrant workers since 2022 and it ... Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia, by far the ...
And others fear that migrant workers needed to build stadiums and other infrastructure will face similar abuses to those who built the last World Cup in Qatar. In a joint statement, 21 human ...
With more than 13 million migrant workers currently in the country (Qatar had around two million in the lead-up to the last World Cup), that number is expected to increase significantly in a ...