migrant workers

December 18, 2022

Fresh criticism for Qatar and FIFA as World Cup ends on International Migrants Day

Doha, Qatar CNN — As the 2022 World Cup comes to a close, global rights organizations have renewed criticism of…

November 30, 2022

CNN – World Cup chief Hassan Al-Thawadi said that between 400 and 500 migrant workers have died as a result…

March 30, 2021

With the tournament less than two years away, players are now joining human rights campaigners, fans and sections of the…

November 4, 2020

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced reforms that will abolish some key restrictions tying millions…

October 8, 2020

CAIRO (AP) — A migrant worker was burned to death in the Libyan capital, UN and government officials said Wednesday,…

July 18, 2020

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian mother Alemtsehay Nasir went to Lebanon dreaming that her maid’s job would let her earn…

May 26, 2020

BEIRUT (AP) — Long before the pandemic struck, they lived and worked in conditions that rights groups called exploitative —…

May 22, 2020

BEIRUT (Reuters) — Temitope can’t find work in Lebanon since the Nigerian domestic worker escaped her employer’s house last month.…

April 25, 2020

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

March 19, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) — Qatar’s old industrial zone has emerged as a hot spot for coronavirus in the Gulf Arab state,…