UAE Laborers Protest Poor Conditions, Demand More Pay

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Alwaght- Oppressed migrant workers are staging another rare protest in the United Arab Emirates to condemn poor working conditions and demand better pay.
Reports say hundreds of migrant laborers have daringly staged protest near the airport hosting the biennial Dubai Airshow.
Reporters say the workers gathering and shouting along a road leading to the Dubai World Central airport, the Persian Gulf city's second airport.
Workers said they were protesting inadequate pay, though none agreed to give their names for fear of retribution in a country where protests rarely take place.
Mid-March this year several hundred south Asian migrant workers also held a rare protest in the heart of Dubai’s ritzy downtown, temporarily blocking traffic.
Such protests are unusual due to the kafala, or sponsorship, system for workers in the Persian Gulf state, which ties their legal status to a sponsoring employer.
Millions of South Asian workers provide the manpower to build high-rises, shopping malls, roads and other mega-construction projects throughout the region. Most come to the Persian Gulf in search of more money to send back to relatives.
Human Rights Watch estimates there are more than five million low-paid migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates alone.
Many migrant workers in the UAE have had to pay fees, typically ranging from $1,000 to $3,000, to job recruiters in their native countries. These recruiters often promise wages much higher than what workers are actually paid, which leaves most laborers in debt and economically tied to their UAE employers.
Recently, Amnesty International has accused another Persian Gulf state, Qatar, of failing migrant workers and “promising little and delivering less” in terms of meaningful reform of its labor laws ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
The human rights organization, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant laborers engaged in a huge construction boom.
In neighboring Saudi Arabia migrant workers also face similar if not worse situations. Saudi Arabia which has been dubbed The Kingdom of Slavery, millions of migrants from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and East African countries build the wealth of the Al Saud dynasty with their blood, sweat and tears and quite often their lives.

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