In debt, unable to earn and refused repatriation over coronavirus fears, many migrant workers face an uncertain future Each night,…
The Guardian: How Nepal’s migration ban trap female ‘modern day slaves’ in the Gulf
Amita* knew she had to escape. After five months of being assaulted, starved and being forced to work for 20…
New York Times: Virus Forces Persian Gulf States to Reckon With Migrant Labor
The Mideast’s wealthiest countries depend on foreigners to do jobs their citizens won’t. But the virus has hobbled the arrangement…
The Guardian: Windrush scandal continues as Chagos Islanders are pressed to ‘go back’
British passport holders say they are routinely pressed by council officers to leave the UK British passport holders from the Chagos…
The Guardian: How Hong Kong maids became caught in a ‘humanitarian tsunami’
Migrant workers who become pregnant by their employers face dismissal, homelessness and a swift return home The sun had not…
The Guardian: ‘It’s a very big torture’: the children growing up in hiding in Dubai
With sex outside marriage punishable by jail, migrant workers who become pregnant are often forced to keep their babies locked…
The Guardian: Chagos children ‘stuck for years in unsafe lodgings’
Families descended from islanders evicted from the Chagos Islands are being housed in council-allocated accommodation deemed by social services to be inappropriate…
New Internationalist: ‘Catastrophic’ explosion risk on Diego Garcia
11 June 2018 – FOI documents reveal the US navy is keeping ships at the controversial naval base so close…
The Guardian: Nigeria rejected British offer to rescue seized Chibok schoolgirls
British armed forces offered to attempt to rescue nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram,…
The Independent: Inside Zaatari, the Jordanian refugee camp that makes Syria’s civil war look like the better option
Rafat Hariri has cheated death many times. He has been shot at, witnessed explosions and lost several friends. Having felt…
