Kenyan man narrates how Qatari employer takes advantage of him in HRW report on migrant workers
A Kenyan man, Henry, narrates ordeal as a migrant worker in Qatar where employers are accused of rampant wage abuse.
HRW reveals wage abuses migrant workers, some of them Kenyan, endure in Qatar
(Beirut) – Qatari authorities’ efforts to protect migrant workers’ right to accurate and timely wages have largely proven unsuccessful, Human Rights Watch said in a report and an accompanying video released on Monday. Despite a handful of reforms in recent years, withheld and unpaid salaries, as well as other wage abuses, are persistent and widespread across at […]
Maids dumped outside embassy as Covid-19 pandemic bites
Scores of maids have been dumped outside a Beirut embassy amid an ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon, heightened by the coronavirus pandemic. Lebanon’s economy is collapsing with the country’s currency losing 70% of its value in the past six months. Now many of the country’s middle class claim they can no longer afford to pay […]