Apr 15, 2013 ... Yet in 2010 Bill Clinton described Dubai as “the only country with huge amounts  of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant  workers a better deal in the Middle East” — a claim that the website PolitiFact. com described as “mostly false.” Hillary Clinton singled out the UAE for ...
Sep 18, 2013 ... The United Arab Emirates has the fifth-largest international migrant stock in the  world, with 7.8 million migrants out of a total population of 9.2 million. Heavily  reliant on foreign labor to sustain economic growth, the UAE government in 1971  introduced a temporary guest worker program. This article ...
Apr 6, 2009 ... This man has sold Dubai to the world as the city of One Thousand and One  Arabian Lights, a Shangri-La in the Middle East insulated from the ... Dubai only  had a dribble of oil compared to neighbouring Abu Dhabi – so Sheikh Maktoum  decided to use the revenues to build something that would last.
Jun 6, 2015 ... The scandal surrounding Fifa has focused attention on the workers who have  died building stadiums in Qatar - how reliable is the much-cited figure of 1200 ...  But this would still be only part of the story, as Qatar is host to large numbers of  migrant workers from other countries, from Egypt to the Philippines.
Mar 13, 2014 ... According to the ITUC, there are already 1.2 million migrant workers in Qatar, and  about a million more will probably pour into the country to help with construction.  These are essentially slaves, Sharan Burrow from the ITUC told Booth. “Fifa  needs to send a very strong and clear message to Qatar that it will ...
Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East.