migrant labor

November 19, 2020

Highway-side eatery in UAE feeds hungry one meal at a time

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At a highway-side restaurant in the industrial outskirts of Dubai, workers methodically assemble packaged…

November 9, 2020

The Saudi sponsor system for guest workers has been described as “modern slavery.” Now, new laws promise to end its…

July 31, 2020

The Kuwaiti embassy in Cairo issued a statement on Friday calling on Egyptian authorities to take necessary measures to deter…

July 23, 2020

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The small, neighboring sheikhdoms of Bahrain and Qatar have the world’s highest per capita…

July 22, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) — When Kapil left his Nepali village for an airport job packing cargo in the United Arab Emirates,…

June 10, 2020

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Feby Dela Peña saw her fellow Filipinos standing in line outside her building in…

May 29, 2020

CAIRO (AP) — The family of a slain Libyan human trafficker attacked a group of migrants in a town that…

May 7, 2020

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As she was treated for COVID-19 in a hospital isolation ward in Kuwait City,…

May 4, 2020

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Police in Kuwait dispersed what they described as a riot by stranded Egyptians unable…

April 23, 2020

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long a lifeline for families back home, migrant workers in oil-rich Gulf Arab states…