The de facto deprivation of liberty at the hands of private individuals disproportionally affects women through the system of legal guardianship, and migrant workers who are prevented from leaving their employers.
Hundreds of migrant workers in Qatar are going unpaid despite Qatar’s repeated promises to improve workers’ rights ahead of the 2022 World Cup, says Amnesty International.
I am not from Qatar nor, for that matter, am I from the Gulf region. I have never worked in this region and so do not qualify as an expatriate resident either.
Human rights and media organisations have condemned the announcement by Israel's communications minister, Ayoub Kara, that the Israeli government has decided to close Al Jazeera' s office in Jerusalem and take the channel off air.
Arab countries engaged in a dispute with Qatar have shut down media outlets with links to or considered sympathetic to the Qatari government, Human Rights Watch said today.
The International Labour Organisation's governing body must continue to scrutinise Qatar's record on migrant labour abuse, Amnesty International says, ahead of a crucial 21 March 2017 decision on a complaint brought by trade unions against the Gulf state.