Migrants
Migrants – people living and working outside their country of origin – are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses. Migrant workers in factories and on farms can endure terrible working conditions, while migrant domestic workers can face a myriad of abuses inside employers’ homes. The trafficking of forced labor is a global problem. Human Rights Watch investigates rights violations arising when countries try to contain or divert the migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers at or within their borders, by placing adults and children in overcrowded and filthy detention centers, sometimes indefinitely. Large numbers of migrants fleeing criminality, poverty and environmental disaster will be without the protections of refugee status. Ultimately, all migrants should be treated with dignity.
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Qatar: Significant Labor and Kafala Reforms
Enforcement Needed, Other Provisions in Effect Still Carry Risk of Abuse
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Maldives: Covid-19 Exposes Abuse of Migrants
Overhaul System to Protect Foreign Workers at All Times
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"How Can We Work Without Wages?"
Salary Abuses Facing Migrant Workers Ahead of Qatar’s FIFA World Cup 2022
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Yemen: Houthis Kill, Expel Ethiopian Migrants
Saudis Fire on Survivors, Detain Hundreds in Appalling Conditions
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Qatar: Significant Labor and Kafala Reforms
Enforcement Needed, Other Provisions in Effect Still Carry Risk of Abuse
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Lebanon: New Safeguards for Migrant Domestic Workers
A Positive Step, But Ensure Enforcement; Amend Labor Law
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Hardships for Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers Rise
Port Explosion Led to Increased Homelessness of Workers Abandoned by Employers
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Greece’s Moria Camp Fire: What’s Next?
Refugees Now Sleeping on the Streets Need Protection and Assistance
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Maldives: Covid-19 Exposes Abuse of Migrants
Overhaul System to Protect Foreign Workers at All Times
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Yemen: Houthis Kill, Expel Ethiopian Migrants
Saudis Fire on Survivors, Detain Hundreds in Appalling Conditions
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Migrants Face Trial after Resisting Return to Libya as Children
Returns to Abusive Migrant Detention Centers Put Lives at Risk
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Sufficient progress not made to warrant Tier 2 ranking for Thailand in TIP Report 2020
Seafood Working Group responds to Trafficking in Persons Report 2020
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Maldives: Migrants Arrested for Protesting Abuses
Officials Claim National Security to Justify Mistreating Foreign Workers
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Malaysia: Stop Treating Rohingya Refugees as Criminals
Jailing, Caning Refugees Violates International Law
