Today's labour news
Leeds UCU condemns Saudi court’s 34 year jail sentence for PhD student Salma al-Shehab 2022-08-28 [MENA Solidarity Network]
Saudi Arabia: 28,000 women apply for 30 train driver jobs 2022-02-17 [Radio New Zealand International]
Saudi Arabia: Investigation into high death rate among Nepali workers finds unsafe working conditions, lack of investigations & relatives left destitute 2022-02-17 [Business and Human Rights Resource Centre]
Yemeni Workers at Risk of Mass Forced Returns 2021-09-01 [Human Rights Watch]
Kenyan agency United Manpower allegedly 'refused pleas' of domestic worker in Saudi Arabia abused by employer & who died in detention 2021-08-12 [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]
Philippines lifts ban on workers deploying to Saudi Arabia 2021-05-29 [Reuters]
Women migrant workers detained for month 2021-04-15 [Amnesty International]
Labor Reforms Insufficient - Abusive Elements Remain; Changes Exclude Domestic Workers 2021-03-27 [Human Rights Watch]
Personal Drivers Face Abuse; Forthcoming Kafala Reforms Overlook Vulnerable Domestic Workers 2020-12-27 [Human Rights Watch]
Global unions call for justice for Saudi women‘s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul 2020-12-22 [IFJ]
Global unions call for justice for Saudi women‘s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul 2020-12-21 [IndustriALL]
Migrants Held in Inhuman, Degrading Conditions 2020-12-15 [Human Rights Watch]
Country ratifies ILO conventions setting out safeguards with crucial importance for the response to COVID-19 2020-12-09 [ILO]
The Cost of Contagion The human rights impacts of COVID-19 on migrant workers in the Gulf 2020-12-06 [Equidem]
450 jobless Indian workers forced to beg 2020-09-19 [TNN]
Court ruling in Jamal Khashoggi's murder case is a shocking denial of justice 2020-09-09 [IFJ]
Coronavirus updates: Amazon workers sue the company; Saudi cases top 100,000 2020-06-07 [CNBC]
EFJ/IFJ back RTVE's decision not to broadcast football Super Cup in Saudi Arabia 2019-11-28 [EFJ]
Saudi journalists outed as gay and detained for seeking asylum 2019-11-22 [IFJ]
MEAA urges Saudi journalists be granted asylum 2019-11-19 [MEAA]
ITF and Saudi Arabia commit to work closer together to support seafarers 2019-11-06 [ITF]
Saudi Arabia claiming immunity in High Court over discrimination case 2019-11-04 [Irish Times]
Dublin vigil to mark the murder of Jamal Khashoggi 2019-10-17 [NUJ]
Khashoggi : A year without justice 2019-10-02 [IFJ]
Britain sold £648m worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia in the 6 months after Khashoggi's death 2019-07-23 [Morning Star]
Open Letter to CLC President Hassan Yussuff on labour opposition to Canada-Saudi arms deal 2019-06-29 [Rank and File]
Largest labour group urged to condemn Saudi weapons deal 2019-06-27 [Middle East Eye]
Saudi Arabia announces new work rules for women 2019-01-21 [khaleejtimes]
73,713 female migrants went to KSA as housemaids in 2018 2019-01-06 [The New Age]
IFJ Executive reinforces calls for international action to hold Saudi government accountable for Khashoggi murder 2018-11-22 [IFJ]
Khashoggi killing complicates Saudi rescue bid for South African arms firm 2018-11-21 [Reuters]
Outrage as Saudis Secretly Execute Indonesian Worker 2018-11-05 [Freedom United]
NUJ hold candle-lit vigil for Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy, London 2018-11-01 [NUJ]
IFJ: End the lies, cover-up and appeasement over killing of Jamal Khashoggi 2018-10-18 [IFJ]
Ibec cancels event to promote Saudi links amid Khashoggi controversy 2018-10-18 [Irish Times]
IFJ: End the lies, cover-up and appeasement over killing of Jamal Khashoggi 2018-10-18 [IFJ]
IFJ demands answers on missing writer Jamal Khashoggi 2018-10-09 [IFJ]
Overworked, abused, hungry: Vietnamese domestic workers in Saudi 2018-09-19 [Al Jazeera]
Minimum wage for Saudi-bound workers set at 1,300 riyals http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-09-17/minimum-wage-for-saudi-bound-workers-set-at-1300-riyals 2018-09-17 [The kathmandu post]
Bangladeshi domestic workers face physical and sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia 2018-09-08 [Deutsche Welle]
Stranded Nepali workers could rejoin jobs in Saudi http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-08-27/stranded-nepali-workers-could-rejoin-jobs-in-saudi 2018-08-29 [The kathmandu post]
Nepal to rescue 38 workers stranded in Saudi Arabia 2018-07-23 [The Post]
“The Gulf is no longer a dream land for Asian migrants” 2018-06-14 [Equal Times]
Kin of migrant in Saudi appeals for his rescue 2018-03-27 [The kathmandu post]
Zaini Misrin Execution Sparks Protest at Saudi Arabian Embassy 2018-03-21 [Tempo]
Bangladeshi workers in Saudi Arabia in peril 2018-03-18 [dhakatribune]
Labor-recruitment expert Geslani confirms rampant ‘sale' of domestics 2018-03-01 [The Mirror]
The everyday acts of resistance from migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia 2018-01-31 [Equal Times]
Ensuring Access to Justice for Workers in Forced Labor For more info 2018-01-11 [Solidarity Center]
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