“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 ...

As long as the Kafala system exists they will be wage slaves. This series looks at how seasonal worker visas, which usually tie workers to their employers, are putting migrant workers around the ...

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 ...

The International Trade Union Confederation filed a complaint against Saudi Arabia's labour practices, urging the ILO to ...

A group of African-led trade unions urged the U.N.-backed International Labor Organization on Wednesday to create its highest ...

UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and several African countries lodge complaints with a UN agency over Saudi rights violations ...

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 ...

According to officials at IOM Lebanon, the kafala system in Lebanon and across the Middle East forces migrant workers to, “choose between accepting exploitative working conditions, and wage ...

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 ...

Responding to the announcement of a third phase of cooperation between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to ...