24 February 2015, Arab News Female domestic workers registered the highest recruiting costs on the Ministry of Labor’s Musaned web page, with an increase of more than ten times the costs to recruit men in other professions, according to the latest data ... read more
18 February 2015, Southern Poverty Law Center A federal jury in an SPLC case today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Co... read more
30 January 2015, NITI Central India declared “national mourning” on January 24 as a mark of respect for Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz who died on January 23. The national flag was flown at half-mast throughout the country. As the 79-year-old king... read more
31 December 2014, Gulf Times A number of rules are in place to protect the interest of workers going abroad, says a Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs official. With increasing focus on problems faced by people seeking overseas jobs and those already wor... read more
12 March 2014, Al Jazeera / Fault Lines From India to Dubai and Afghanistan, we probe the system that brings foreign labourers to US military bases abroad. Today there are nearly 40,000 foreign contract workers on bases in the US military’s Central Comm... read more
28 November 2014, Arab News Manpower firms in the Saudi market responded to the Ministry of Labor’s pressure and published the prices and the cost of recruiting domestic workers on the “Mosanid” website before the deadline, next Monday. As of yester... read more
25 November 2014, Global Construction Review Doha’s success in winning the 2019 World Athletics Championship was unexpected – the US city of Eugene, in Oregon, was favourite. What was more predictable was that the victory would be the signal for anoth... read more
10 November 2014, The Rakyat Post THERE is a taste, a smell to freedom. You and I enjoy it. Many don’t. An estimated 20-27 million people are believed to live in slavery around the world. And many of these cases are happening in Malaysia. Indian nationa... read more
27 October 2014, Center for Investigative Reporting Labor brokers providing Indian high-tech workers to American companies have hijacked a professional visa program, creating an underground system of financial bondage by stealing wages and benefits, even ... read more
29 September 2014, Saudi Gazette via Yahoo News The head of the national committee for recruitment said relying on Indonesians is not enough to meet the huge demand for domestic workers in the Kingdom. “Indonesian authorities are insisting on high s... read more