“I heard the bombing, and I was so scared,” Swaray told CNN, sitting on a thin mattress in an informal shelter for internally displaced migrant ... of the kafala system is that it sounds ...

Civil society organisations have joined growing calls for the abolishment of the Kafala system in the Gulf countries where Kenyan migrant workers have fallen victim. Amnesty International and ...

Within hours of the fatal fire that killed 49 migrant workers — a majority ... only be possible by dismantling the all-pervasive Kafala system — a complex of laws and practices that ensure ...

New Delhi: Zubaan. Renkiewicz, P. (2016) ‘Sweat makes the green grass grow: The precarious future of Qatar’s migrant workers in the run up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup under the Kafala system and ...

However, even these limited reforms have been largely restricted to workers covered by Saudi Arabia’s labor law, which continues to exclude domestic workers. Today, domestic workers remain subject to ...

These vulnerabilities are further exacerbated by the systemic marginalisation of migrant workers under the Kafala system. The employer-tied visa system leaves lower-income migrant workers at the ...

detailed “dangerous” conditions for migrant workers. He explained how the notorious kafala system binds those migrants to employers. He said that many are “compelled” to pay “near ...

Labour and Social Protection Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua has issued an interim response to a report by the Amnesty ...

GENEVA — A global group of trade unions is accusing Saudi Arabia of abusing migrant workers in a complaint ... including the kafala system of laws, before being picked by FIFA in 2010 as a ...

NGO studies 50 cases of deaths; says Saudi authorities “failed to adequately protect workers from preventable deaths".