Security contractors among hundreds from the Philippines, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka stuck without clear plans for evacuation When Taliban fighters started…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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