Gulf Times, 13 July 2014 A Qatar Foundation report has highlighted 10 key points for improving workers’ conditions in Qatar after a study found that many of them were subjected to rights violations in the home countries well before their arrival in Doh... read more
Sarabjit Pandher, The Hindu, 8 July 2014 A group of 28 Iraq returnees on Monday filed a complaint with the Chandigarh police against a manpower consultancy firm that also doubles as a travel agency for ‘duping and causing them substantial financial loss... read more
Fawaz Shaheen, Times of India, 5 July 2014 As the freedom of trapped Indian nurses in Iraq generates a collective sigh of relief, their story also underlines a rarely discussed issue; the abuse and exploitation of Indian migrant workers in Gulf and Arab c... read more
Amnesty International India, 2014 Saudi Arabia has attracted more low-paid Indian migrants over the last 25 years than any other country in the Gulf region. Every day, close to 1,000 Indian low-wage migrant workers are provided with emigration clearances ... read more
October 2008 Volume 15 Number 4 Labor migration from South Asia mostly involves: (1) workers going to work with two- or three-year contracts to the Gulf oil exporters; (2) a high share of women leaving to be domestic helpers from countries such as Sri Lan... read more
24 March 2014, EIN News Desk Recognizing that labour mobility is important for the private sector and that there is a need to involve it at national and international levels, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Federation of Indian ... read more