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 log into a torture chamber each day’: the strain of moderating social media
As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clean up the web has…
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…
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…
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