Leading UN human rights experts on issues of slavery, migration, and human trafficking worldwide have urged Saudi Arabia on April 29 to effectively abolish the kafala (sponsorship) system, an abusive ...

(Beirut) – Hundreds of migrant workers employed in Saudi Arabia by the manufacturing and supply company Sendan International did not receive their salaries for up to eight months, Human Rights Watch ...

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Amnesty International issued a report on Tuesday detailing the human rights abuses that migrant workers face in Saudi Arabia while working on the Riyadh Metro Project, in violation of Saudi and ...

In a groundbreaking move, Saudi Arabia has officially dismantled its 50-year-old Kafala system, a labor sponsorship framework that tied migrant workers' residency and employment to individual ...

New Delhi: Saudi Arabia has taken a historic step by ending its 70-year-old Kafala system, setting free millions of migrant workers from restrictive labour rules. The reform aims to improve the ...

Six decades of rapid development across the Gulf has been fueled by cheap, migrant labor from Asia. Yet as another Middle Eastern conflict escalates, an inconvenient truth is surfacing: wars in the ...

A global group of trade unions is accusing Saudi Arabia of abusing migrant workers in a complaint filed Wednesday with a UN-backed labor organization, which comes as FIFA prepares to confirm the ...