Article by Isobel Archer and Danielle McMullan. Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
July 7 2020.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak we have tracked a significant uptick in reports of abuses against migrant workers in the Gulf. Between April and June, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre recorded 47 reports of such abuses – equivalent to the total number of abuses we recorded in 2019 – and no doubt a fraction of the abuses actually happening on the ground, due to restrictions on freedom of the press and the activities of human rights NGOs. The links to COVID-19 are clear: the pandemic was cited as a key or exacerbating factor in 77% of cases.
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