An overview of the risks to migrant workers on construction projects across the Gulf.
Migrant workers make up between 60% and 90% of the workforce in the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Low-wage construction workers are at particular risk from labour exploitation from their employers, and face abuses including withheld wages, heat stress and other health and safety concerns, restricted mobility, lack of access to grievance mechanisms and remedy, and substandard living conditions.
The briefing issues recommendations for clients and companies on adopting and enforcing robust human rights protections for migrant workers.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is an online repository of resources covering a broad range of issues, including child labour. The reosurce centre provides an overview of available online reosurces on the topci of child labour, ranging from research...
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations. child labour
This regularly updated website includes links to different reports and guides produced by the Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking (ATEST), all of which provide funding recommendations to Congress to fight human trafficking. You can...Read More
This strategy sets out the Government’s ambition to prevent, tackle and respond to all forms of child sexual abuse. It focuses on three key objectives which overlap and reinforce one another, recognising the complex, interconnected nature of this ...Read More
This document aims to assist in these efforts by focusing on how States can operationalize the best interests principle set forth in Article 3.1 in the CRC, which states that "The best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration in all a...Read More
Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience: a framework and assessment for measuring and increasing lived experience leadership across the spectrum of engagement is a first-of-its-kind resource that offers guidance and tools to support o...Read More
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