Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the plight of migrant labourers in the Gulf

Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the plight of migrant labourers in the Gulf

Every year, tens of thousands of labourers in the wealth countries of the Gulf, most of them migrants from South Asia, die in unsafe working conditions on construction sites. As the GCC states pour enormous resources into developing their infrastructure, little attention is paid to the plight of the people doing the actual building work. I spoke to James Lynch of FairSquare, a UK-based non-profit that researches and advocates for the rights of labourers in the Gulf. https://fairsq.org/ Assistant Producer: Japji Oberoi Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site behindthelines and please sign up for my substack at arthursnell.substack.com and/or follow me on Bluesky @snellarthur.bsky.social. You can sometimes find me on other podcasts - most often Disorder which I am involved with in partnership with RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute, the world's oldest think tank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bytes and Bullets: Steve Feldstein on how tech is reshaping modern warfare

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Ukraine update: deep strikes on Russian oil and a shifting US position

Ukraine update: deep strikes on Russian oil and a shifting US position

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BTL Exclusive: George Osborn on how authoritarians are exploiting the world of video games to geopolitical advantage.

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