by Faro | Jul 22, 2020 | Corruption, Employment, Expatriate Workers, Healthcare, Healthcare facilities, Human Resources, Human Rights, MENA, Politics, Population Migration, Sponsorship, Workers Remittances
UAE’s migrant workers fret over future in coronavirus economy; that is according to my reading, perhaps about their own future in the Gulf region, particularly in the UAE during and above all after the passing of the pandemic. It must be reminded that the United...
by Faro | Jun 30, 2020 | Culture, Democracy, Expatriate Workers, Freedom of Speech, Gender Equality, Human Resources, Human Rights, MENA, Sponsorship, Workers Remittances
Dnyanesh Kamat, Political analyst in Columns on Black Lives Matter across the MENA region states that From Basra to Beirut and from Tunis to Tel Aviv, anti-Black racism exists in various forms across the region. Here it is : Black Lives Matter: Racism in the Middle...
by Faro | Jun 12, 2020 | Climate Change, Corruption, Democracy, Diversification of the economy, Emerging Markets, Expatriate Workers, Free Press, Freedom of Speech, Global Warming, Governance, Greening of the desert, Human Rights, Informal Market, MENA, Politics, Population Migration
Authors Olivia Macharis is a researcher at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut and Nadim Farajalla is Program Director of the Climate Change and Environment Program at the Issam Fares Institute for...
by Faro | Jun 11, 2020 | Diversification of the economy, Emerging Markets, Employment, Energy Transition, Expatriate Workers, Greening of the desert, Human Rights, MENA, Population Migration, Well-being, Workers Remittances
Business Maverick tells us the Expats are leaving Dubai and that’s bad news for the economy By Bloomberg It’s a choice facing millions of foreigners across the Gulf as the fallout from the pandemic and a plunge in energy prices forces economic adjustments. “Dubai is...
by Faro | May 26, 2020 | Expatriate Workers, Human Resources, MENA, Workers Remittances
After coalitions of NGO’s and trade unions letters to the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman requesting the rights of migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic to be protected, here is the UN experts call...
by Faro | Apr 20, 2020 | Expatriate Workers, Human Resources, Human Rights, MENA, Population Migration, Workers Remittances
Vincent Guermond, Royal Holloway and Kavita Datta, Queen Mary University of London hold that the Coronavirus pandemic could hit the billions migrant workers send home in cash. As the coronavirus pandemic hits jobs and wages in many sectors of the global economy that...
