Every year, thousands of Senegalese risk dangerous journeys through the Sahara or across the Atlantic to reach Europe or destinations like Saudi Arabia, often facing exploitation, harsh working…
Indonesian migrant fishing boat crews face exploitation, violence, and unpaid wages due to unclear recruitment practices, short training, and dual licensing systems. Despite harsh conditions at sea,…
While the regularization of undocumented workers in jobs in short supply is being debated, the "Petite Syria", a caterer and restaurateur from Lyon, has been voluntarily using foreign staff since…
Haitian and stateless workers in the Dominican Republic face harsh conditions on Central Romana’s sugar plantations, with low wages, forced evictions, and immigration raids, worsened by a U.S.…
The news of Uganda lifting the ban on its citizens working as migrant workers in Jordan and Saudi Arabia in 2022 created expectations to uplift many families’ challenging financial…
In the villages of Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, it is difficult to find work with sufficient pay for daily survival. Every year tens of thousands of Kyrgyzs citizens travel to different countries with…
Qatar has spent ten years and more than $200 billion preparing for the World Cup. The building boom surrounding the event has relied on migrant labourers, mostly from the Philippines, Bangladesh,…
A warming planet is creating a booming and loosely-regulated disaster restoration industry fueled by immigrant labor. Without protection, workers are exposed to lethal toxins making them sick long…
Migrant workers make up nearly 20 percent of all domestic workers. And in Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, the number is much higher.
Listen to the full podcast by Pauline Ongaji Ogada published…
According to official information, approximately 30,000 Kyrgyz nationals are currently working in Turkey. There are twice as many. Most Kyrgyz migrants working in Turkey are women. Among them, many…
More and more Central Americans are arriving in Spain. The walls and risks of the journey to the United States have pushed many women to try their luck in the European country. Although the journey…
Exclusive: Workers contracted to work for western brands in Saudi Arabia have described conditions as ‘like jail’.
Read the full article by Katie McQue published in The Guardian.
Thousands of undocumented migrants keep the Netherlands clean. They are indispensable, but have always remained invisible. Until the coronavirus pandemic forced us to notice them. Will opening our…
Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions.
Read the article by Pramod Acharya published in The…
They make Gruyère and Vacherin cheese with love and using traditional techniques. Some of these apprentices come from far away, from Eritrea or Guinea. Cheese dairies are in great need of these…
Spain and Portugal are united and divided by Andalusia and Alentejo, areas experiencing an agribusiness boom linked to increased labour exploitation.
Discover the original article and…
Today, as Romania faces with a labor shortage, Bucharest is turning to Asia to boost its workforce, recruiting tens of thousands of workers from as far away as Banglasdesh and Vietnam. But…
Under draconian labour laws, domestic workers often don’t receive rest days, maternity protection, or other benefits. But community based activists are cutting out their own path for improved labour…
Under the blistering summer sun, with temperatures that often exceed 40°C, they pick fruits and vegetables to fill European supermarket shelves. But how are increasingly hot summers impacting the…
Poor migrants from Punjab toil in Italy’s orchards so that cheap kiwifruit can be sold in supermarkets like Lidl, Føtex, Netto, Spar and Rema 1000. Danwatch has visited the worker’s home villages in…
