Regional conflict has intensified the vulnerabilities of Asian domestic migrant workers, leaving many without legal ...

MIGRANT workers trapped in Lebanon’s sponsorship system are being abused and denied their basic rights, including access to healthcare, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned today.

It is not unusual for these workers to live and ... the food and work in groups. The migrant labour system which supports these conditions is known as kafala and is widespread across Middle ...

Under the kafala system, in place since the 1970s Persian Gulf oil boom, workers arrive on visas that offer fewer protections ...

A Lok Sabha document tabled on 28 March tore open a festering wound: 10,152 Indian citizens are entangled in foreign judicial ...

FIFA recognized the terrible conditions for migrant workers in Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, at a European Parliament hearing but fell short of calling for an end to the kafala visa system ...

AIi has consistently called for reform of the sponsorship or “kafala” system- which ties workers ... to address the rampant abuse of migrant workers’ rights, Amnesty International said ...

Qatar claims that the reform will see the abolition of the Kafala system which has been likened to modern ... In practice, employers can still stop migrant workers from leaving the country. By making ...

Hundreds of migrant workers in Lebanon are waiting ... via recruitment agencies under a sponsorship-based labor system known as Kafala — only to find themselves often trapped with confiscated ...

They also demanded for the abolition of the Kafala system, the establishment of stronger legal protections for migrant workers and the creation of a compensation fund for victims and their families.

Initially, migrant workers came under the kafala system (a system used to monitor migrant workers, working primarily in the construction and domestic sectors in Gulf Cooperation Council member states ...