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Middle East/North Africa

January 14, 2020 News Release

Qatar: Reform Efforts Fail to Remedy Rights Abuses
Middle East/North Africa

May 6, 2019 Q & A

Saudi Arabia’s Absher App: Controlling Women’s Travel While Offering Government Services
Middle East/North Africa

January 17, 2019 News Release

UAE: Injustice, Intolerance, Repression

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November 14, 2017 Video

Video: Tanzanian Domestic Workers Abused in Oman, UAE

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January 17, 2019 News Release

Qatar: Partial Reforms Risk Undermining Progress
November 20, 2018 News Release

France: Press UAE Crown Prince on Abuses in Yemen
September 6, 2018 News Release

Qatar: End All Migrant Worker Exit Visas
June 26, 2018 News Release

Qatar: Fix Gaps in Domestic Worker Law
April 26, 2018 News Release

Lebanon: Political Parties Shun Rights Issues
February 21, 2018 News Release

Kuwait/Philippines: Protect Filipino Migrant Workers
June 14, 2010 News Release

Middle East: End 'Sponsored' Gateway to Human Trafficking
December 4, 2009 News Release

Kuwait: Bring Domestic Workers under Labor Law’s Mantle

March 7, 2018

“Caught in a Web”

Treatment of Pakistanis in the Saudi Criminal Justice System
November 14, 2017

“Working Like a Robot”

Abuse of Tanzanian Domestic Workers in Oman and the United Arab Emirates
July 13, 2016

“I Was Sold”

Abuse and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers in Oman

Daily Brief

January 24, 2020

Education Day deadline; people with limited mobility can’t access pensions in Ukraine; the Maldives should stop destroying mangrove forests; Poland approves controversial "muzzle law"; press freedom under threat in Brazil; pressure on China to release rights defenders for Lunar New Year; and renewed airstrikes in Syria must cease.

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