US EditionMigrant Workers Behind Riyadh Metro System Subjected to Abuse
Amnesty International details systemic abuses including excessive fees and low wages affecting mainly South Asian migrant workers over a decade on the Riyadh metro project.
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Migrant workers behind Riyadh metro subjected to decade of abuse
Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia who worked on the Riyadh metro project were subject to years of abuse and grim working conditions, Amnesty International revealed on Tuesday. In a report titled "Nobody wants to work in these situations: A decade of exploration on the Riyadh Metro project," the international NGO said workers were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees to recruiters, to work in extreme heat, and earned meagre wages aboard the pr…
Migrant workers behind Riyadh Metro system subjected to abuse
Migrant workers who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh Metro project were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, worked in dangerous heat and earned pitiful wages during a decade of serious abuse, Amnesty International revealed in a new report today. The report, “Nobody wants to work in these situations”: A decade of exploitation on the Riyadh Metro project, documents labour abuses on one of Saudi Arabia’s flagship infrastructur…
If you don't look closely, it's easy to miss the children. They come and go during the day, a handful of boys and girls seeking refuge from the 110-degree heat. But at night they're always there—crouched on the median strip near a gas station in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
Migrants who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh subway site were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment costs, worked at dangerously high temperatures and received pitiful wages for a decade characterized by abuses, Amnesty International wrote in a new report released on Tuesday, 18 November, entitled Ten Years of Operation on the Riyadh subway site, reports violations of workers' rights on one of the flagship infrastructure projects …
Fake promises of "a better life" get Kenyan women and children trapped in Saudi Arabia
Right now, hundreds of Kenyan women stuck in Saudi Arabia are living on pavements, in crowded rooms or in hiding with their children. Some sleep on the streets of Jeddah and Riyadh, clutching toddlers and bags, with no clear way home and no papers for their babies. How Kenyan women stuck in Saudi Arabia got here For years, Kenyan women have travelled to Saudi Arabia chasing work as domestic workers, nannies and cleaners. Amnesty International es…
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