Amnesty Report on Migrant Workers in the Gulf………….
“In the oil- and gas-rich states of the Gulf, it was migrant workers – mostly from Asia – whose labour underpinned the national economies and helped build the world’s tallest skyscraper, opened amid great fanfare in December in Dubai. They did the heavy lifting but when it came to human rights, they were near the bottom of the heap: abused, exploited and often required to live in squalid conditions out of sight of the opulence. At the very bottom, both in the Gulf and in countries such as Lebanon, were the migrant domestic workers, almost all of them women. They were generally excluded even from the weak labour law protections that existed for migrants working in construction and other industry. They were among the most vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, triply discriminated against as foreigners, as unprotected workers and as women………” Amnesty International
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