Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers Unpaid for Months

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Migrant workers at a construction site near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2, 2024. © 2024 Jaap Arriens/Sipa via AP Photo (Beirut) – Hundreds of migrant workers employed in Saudi Arabia by the manufacturing and supply company Sendan International did not receive their salaries for up to eight months, Human Rights Watch said today. They include workers employed in state-owned oil company Aramco project sites.Migrant workers were often stranded without pay for months, forced into undocumented status, or left with no choice but to return home at their own expense,…

Read complete article

~	Two seventh-century people found with west African ancestry – a story of diversity and integration in early Anglo-Saxon society

~	Environmental pressures need not always spark conflict – lessons from history show how crisis can be avoided

~	Sussan Ley sacks Jacinta Price after she refuses to declare leadership loyality

~	Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian – and why that matters for democracy

~	Bail reforms across the US have shown that releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety

~	How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard

~	Doctors are joining unions in a bid to improve working conditions and raise wages in a stressful health care system

~	40 years ago, the first AIDS movies forced Americans to confront a disease they didn’t want to see

~	Where does your glass come from?

~	Sacred texts and ‘little bells’: The building blocks of Arvo Pärt’s musical masterpieces