The 2022 World Cup is getting underway soon in Qatar. For our Econ Extra Credit series this month, we decided to watch “The Workers Cup,” which documents the lives of some of the migrant workers that ...

In 2017, a nurse from Karnataka arrived in Saudi Arabia, lured by the promise of a monthly salary of Rs 25,000. Instead, she became a victim of trafficking and slavery under the infamous kafala system ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — New labor rules in the energy-rich nation of Qatar “effectively dismantles” the country’s long-criticized “kafala” employment system, a U.N. labor body said Sunday.

Football World Cup 2022 host Qatar has agreed changes to its controversial "kafala" sponsorship system for foreign workers, which critics have likened to modern-day slavery, state media reported on ...

Saudi Arabia has scrapped a controversial labour sponsorship system that allowed employers to control labourers life including whether they could change jobs, where they would live, confiscating their ...

MANAMA/DUBAI, June 8 (Reuters) - Gulf Arab states are unlikely to follow Bahrain in dumping the controversial "kafala" system used to import millions of foreigners as demand for cheap labour outweighs ...

The system was compared to modern-day slavery, and left vulnerable workers with little protection and open to abuse, critics said. Qatar on Monday formally announced the end of its controversial ...

With regard to the article "KSA upholds human rights in letter and spirit – Khaled" (Oct. 11), it should be pointed out that the kafala system in the country has destroyed many lives. Those Saudis who ...

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