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Foreign laborers in Dubai often live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as being "less than humane", [4] [5] and was the subject of the documentary, Slaves of Dubai. [6] A 2006 NPR report quoted Baya Sayid Mubarak, the Indian consul for labor and welfare in Dubai, as saying: "the city's economic miracle would not be possible without ...
Pearl divers in the Persian Gulf. At the time, the pearl industry was dominated by slave labor. Oil field 1932. The British Foreign Office unsuccessfully asked the Iraq Petroleum Company not to use slave labor in the Gulf. Pearl divers in Abu Dhabi. Chattel slavery existed in the Trucial States (1892–1971), which later formed the United Arab ...
DIFC Labour Law – Applies to all companies in the Dubai International Financial Centre free zone. [241] Labour laws generally favour the employer and are less focused on the rights of employees. The Ministry of Labour is criticised for loosely enforcing these laws, most notably late or no wage or overtime payment for both blue collar and ...
The 163 Chinese workers found by Brazil's labor ministry in what it described as "slavery-like conditions" at a factory construction site owned by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD have been ...
China's Xinjiang region is using agricultural industrialization to dismantle traditional communities and exploit Uyghur farmers, resulting in tainted products entering global supply chains and ...
The Biden administration added more than two dozen Chinese companies to its forced labor blacklist Friday in its latest effort to combat the exploitation of China’s ethnic Uyghur population. The ...
The report of slavery in China to the Temporary Slavery Commission (TSC) of 1924-1926 described the Mui Tsai trade in girls, which was a matter given international attention at this point. [49] Hong Kong refused to provide any information with the motivation that there was no slavery in Hong Kong. [50]
The legions of workers who built Dubai’s extravagant Expo 2020 site and keep it running face exploitation, grim conditions and a wide range of labor abuses, according to a new report released on ...