(Content warning) https://jacobin.com/2025/07/kenyan-women-saudi-work-abuse
BEYOND THE FAÇADE: BWI REPORT UNMASKS THE REALITIES BEHIND SAUDI ARABIA’S “LABOUR REFORMS”
https://www.bwint.org/BwiNews/NewsDetails?newsId=556
#BWI #Capitalism #constructionworkers #Exploitation #FIFA #kafala
#labormovement #migrantworkers organize #SaudiArabia solidarity #Unions #WorkingPoor
Westliches #Kafala System.
Our Editor-At-Large and Director of Projects, Vani Saraswathi, penned an opinion piece for @openDemocracy unpacking the enduring exploitation of the #Kafala system, including artificially low wages and extreme marginalisation.
2034 FIFA World Cup Spectacle
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/saudi-arabia-bwi-files-ilo-forced-labour-complaint-ahead-of-2034-fifa-world-cup-bid-amid-epidemic-of-migrant-worker-abuse/
Stolen wages / Wage Theft
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/saudi-arabia-10000-filipino-construction-workers-awaiting-unpaid-wages-to-receive-usd180-humanitarian-package-from-philippines-govt/
Capos always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
(Note: #Carrefour Group sponsor of 2024 Paris Olympics has an annual turnover of more than €94 billion. Carrefour facilities and stores in #SaudiArabia are operated by #UAE based #MajidAlFuttaim via a franchise agreement with Carrefour Group, headquartered in France.)
« Alors que l'armée israélienne pilonne le quartier, Dina cherche de l'aide auprès des autorités libanaises, mais raconte avoir été refoulée des abris officiels mis en place pour héberger les quelque 1,2 million de personnes déplacées depuis l'offensive israélienne lancée dans le pays fin septembre. Elle trouve finalement de l'aide auprès de l'ONG Kafa, qui lutte contre la violence et l'exploitation des êtres humains. La voilà mise à l'abri dans un refuge dans la banlieue de Beyrouth. Elle soupire et explique : "Je vis au jour le jour, heure par heure. Je n'essaye même pas de penser au futur." »
#Liban 
#TravailleusesMigrantes #Kafala #Racisme #Négrophobie #Exploitation #Sexisme #Bombardements #Réfugié·es #FranceTVInfo
https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1602885/culture/le-film-the-goat-life-cree-la-controverse-a-travers-le-monde-arabe
#cinema #movies
Le #film « The Goat Life » crée la controverse à travers le monde arabe
#inde
C’est un long métrage indien qui ne plaît pas à l’ #Arabiesaoudite et envenime ses relations avec l’ #Algérie. En cause : la pratique de la #kafala, un système oppressif de parrainage des travailleurs immigrés.
En la intención de picantear el mundial Qatar 2022, este ANSI fue publicado en la Inércia DemoParty en Portugal. Capt. Tsubasa (Oliver Atom) firme junto al pueblo yendo al estadio donde un jugador cabeza de dólar tira un chumbazo contra los trabajadores.
Inspirado en la pintura "Manifestación" de A.Berni.
Tsubasa vs. FIFA : Terminate Kafala!
@inercia
#tsubasa #futbol #anime #ansi #ascii #artetexto #retrogaming #retro #fifa #kafala #qatar #8bit #protesta #trabajadores #cyberpunk
Intentioned to heat up the 2022 Qatar Football World Cup, this ANSI was released in Portugal's Inércia DemoParty. Feaures Capt Tsubasa along with the workers up to the stadium where this dollar-head player shoots the people.
Inspired in "Manifestación" - a painting of Argentinian artist A.Berni -
Tsubasa vs. FIFA : Terminate Kafala!
@inercia
#tsubasa #football #anime #ansi #ascii #text #art #retrogaming #retro #artwork #fifa #kafala #qatar #8bit #protest #workers #workingclass #cyberpunk
#SaudiArabia, where #unions banned, set to host #FIFA 2034, faces #HumanRights challenge for #ForcedLabor, #DebtBondage, denying migrants access to their own documents
#Kafala labour system in the Gulf - #UAE, #SaudiArabia, #Kuwait, #Oman, #Qatar and #Jordan exploits
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/25/kafala-labour-system-gulf-women-talk-about-life-as-a-domestic-worker-in-the-gulf
Lie on the floor until sold
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/oct/12/we-lie-on-the-floor-till-someone-buys-us-shocking-allegations-of-uae-agencies-abuse-of-domestic-workers
Next was an incredible discussion with Sumayya Kassamali on female domestic #labor in #Beirut at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Kassamali examines the origins and evolution of the #kafala system, considering changes in migration, economic systems, and racial attitudes. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMkMaWnlYls (10/11) #sociology
THREAD: So the other day, I published my report in the Middle East Eye based on leaked documents I obtained of a bilateral labor agreement signed between Ethiopia and Lebanon on April 11th 2023. Both countries meant to keep it secret, as the deal betrays the interests of hundreds of thousands of migrant domestic worker women in Lebanon. The deal highlights what a country's post civil war economic desperation can look like.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ethiopia-lebanon-agreement-no-protection-domestic-workers
I was also lucky enough to participate in the one that was even bigger, in October 2019 (as a reporter mostly). As a blogger I wrote about #sectarianism #kafala #LGBTQrights #feminism and other fun stuff. 4/?
Some of the current fuss over the #WorldCup in #Qatar is beyond hypocritical.
#VirtueSignalling at best and some even #racist!
This has been 12 years in the making. 12 years!!! More than a decade!
It's now a done deal. It's running. You are late af!
If you ever cared about #HumanRights you could have spoken up years ago. (And some brave people did and e.g. the #Kafala system was abandoned!)
If you ever cared about #ClimateChange do something about things that still can be changed!
