Migrant worker policy requires regional dialogue

Earlier this week, Amnesty International released a report entitled My Sleep is My Break: Exploitation of Domestic Workers in Qatar. The report, as its title indicates, focuses on the abuses of domestic workers that take place in Qatar. It makes for damning reading, but the reality is that this problem is larger than domestic workers and Qatar. Indeed, it is an issue that reverberates around the region.

The report describes a number of procedures and a legal framework that is Qatari in nature, but many of those same procedures and laws exist in other parts of the GCC. Indeed, it would be difficult to find any GCC country that does not suffer from some flaws in its migrant worker policy.

The opening of the article. The full text is at The National.