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I'm an journalist, based in Dubai.

The Guardian: Alone in Oman: Covid worsens abuse for trafficked women

Women from Sierra Leone tricked into servitude find themselves sold on under Gulf’s kafala system Isha knew she was in trouble when … More

The Washington Post: Sold into Syrian servitude, Filipina workers tell of abuse, rape and imprisonment

By Katie McQue Jan. 25, 2021 at 12:43 a.m. GMT+4 DUBAI — Josephine Tawaging was being bundled off to the airport … More

The Washington Post: Dubai seemed to have the coronavirus licked. Then it flung open its doors.

By Katie McQue Jan. 26, 2021 at 6:39 p.m. GMT+4 DUBAI — After a 12-hour shift in the Old Souk one … More

The Guardian: Interpol arrest warrant allegedly targeting Kuwaiti princess and partner ‘on political grounds’

Dissident couple say their lives would be under threat if returned from Bosnia to Kuwait, as rights groups claim notice … More

The Guardian: ‘What about justice?’: Chagos Islanders pin their hopes on Biden

Decades after the US took over the territory for a military base, families separated and forced to leave their homes … More

The Telegraph: ‘I want to leave but I’m scared’: Pandemic increases risk of violence for Gulf’s domestic workers

Lockdown measures, put in place to stem the spread of the virus, have put already vulnerable domestic maids under more … More

The Guardian: ‘They have to be punished’: the mothers trapped in the UAE by ‘love crimes’

Single migrant women left destitute by Covid can’t leave until they have served sentences for sex outside marriage – but … More

The Washington Post: Migration, in reverse

Out of money and fearing the virus, hundreds ofthousands of foreign workers are flooding home Story by Joanna Slater, Kareem Fahim and Katie McQue … More

The Guardian: ‘I am starving’: the migrant workers abandoned by Dubai employers

With no salary or money to pay for flights home, many are trapped in desperate situations in crowded labour camps … More

The Guardian: ‘We drink from the toilet’: migrants tell of hellish Saudi detention centres

Kingdom urged to rethink mass deportation policy as crowded and insanitary conditions spark Covid-19 fears Ibraahin’s* first week of work … More

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