20 March 2016, Trade Arabia There has been a significant improvement in the migrant workers’ living conditions and also their rights in Qatar following a critical report from the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) tripartite inspection ... 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
28 November 2014, The World Post Qatar is signaling rejection of demands by human rights and trade union activists to grant trade union and collective bargaining rights to its majority migrant worker population with the detention and likely deportation of... read more
Verité, September 2014 New Research from Verité exposes forced labour in the Malaysian electronics industry, citing the global labour recruitment regime as a major causes of abuses. From the Vérite media release: Groundbreaking Research Offers Concret... read more
9 September 2014, Albawaba.com Migrant worker recruitment agencies are making elaborate profits off the back of migrant domestic workers who continue to face extremely harsh labor and living conditions in Lebanon, a new report said. “The report found th... read more
Kafa (Enough) Violence Against Women, September 2014 On September 8, KAFA (Enough) Violence Against Women (Lebanon) released a report entitled “Dreams for Sale: The Exploitation of Domestic Workers from Recruitment in Nepal and Bangladesh to Working... read more