Saudi Arabia has officially abolished its decades-old Kafala system, a labour sponsorship model that long governed the lives of millions of migrant workers. The landmark decision, announced in June ...

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — New labor rules in the energy-rich nation of Qatar “effectively dismantles” the country’s long-criticized “kafala” employment system, a U.N. labor body said Sunday.

In 2017, a nurse from Karnataka arrived in Saudi Arabia, lured by the promise of a monthly salary of Rs 25,000. Instead, she became a victim of trafficking and slavery under the infamous kafala system ...

The 2022 World Cup is getting underway soon in Qatar. For our Econ Extra Credit series this month, we decided to watch “The Workers Cup,” which documents the lives of some of the migrant workers that ...

In a historic labor reform, Saudi Arabia has abolished its decades-old Kafala system, which linked the employment and residency of workers to their employers. The move was announced in June 2025 as ...

In Lebanon, tens of thousands of migrants work under the so-called "kafala" system. Human and migrants' rights organizations describe it as modern-day slavery.Abang Sharon arrived in Lebanon on April ...

The Migrant Workers Task Force (MWTF), a Lebanese NGO comprising of Lebanese and international activists, including Migrant Workers, has launched a campaign aiming at tackling the notorious Kafala (or ...