Battle Lines Harden Over Big Oil’s Role at Climate Talks in Dubai. Sultan al-Jaber leads the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company as well as the COP28 climate talks coming this November. An unavoidable tension surrounds this year’s United Nations-sponsored climate talks in November: They will take place in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, and the...
Thank you for watching ‘Our Queer Life’ – my series that shines a light on the stories of people in our queer community that have walked a different walk of life than most of us. I have had the most amazing time meeting all of the different queer people on the show and I truly...
Equidem launched its report “EXPOsed: Discrimination and forced labour practices on Expo Dubai 2020” on February 2, 2022. Speakers included: Dome Okuku, Equidem Kenya researcher, Mustafa Qadri, Equidem CEO, Namrata Raju, Equidem, India Director, Sharan Burrow, General-Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, and Bhim Shrestha of Shramik Sanjal (a Nepalese migrant worker network). The...
In this episode we bring to you the struggles of a young Black African girl in Dubai. We all love Dubai for several reasons but beneath the glitz and glam lies dark and sad stories of thousands of Immigrants. Dubai is beautiful but its not what it seems or being portrayed on Tv, Before you...
Dubai labour camps are home to thousands of predominantly South-Asian labourers who, through cheap labour have built the insane sky scrapers and buildings you see in the city. The labourers in this city live a completely different life.
Call to Blacklist Dubai and UAE Over ‘Dirty Money’ and Oligarchs. Politicians and activists are calling for Dubai and the United Arab Emirates to be blacklisted over its failure to observe sanctions against Russian oligarchs and stem the flow of dirty money flowing through the UAE. Western countries including the US and UK hit Russia with...
A London-based labor rights group says the migrant workers involved in Expo 2020 in Dubai are subjected to labor abuse and exploitation. STORY-LINE: The legions of workers who built Dubai’s extravagant Expo 2020 site and keep it running face exploitation, grim conditions and a wide range of labor abuses, according to a new report released...
The disturbing saga engulfing the royal family of Dubai has taken another incredible twist. Princess Latifa, the 35-year-old daughter of the Emirates’ ruler Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, who claims she is being held hostage by her father, has managed to smuggle secret video diaries out of her palace prison. In the recordings she describes the hell...
This Human Trafficking Awareness Month, we’re shining a light on the dark underbelly of the #UnitedArabEmirates (#UAE), one of the sex tourist capitals of the world. The trading and sexual exploitation of women and girls run rampant in #Dubai, made worse recently by the addition of #Israeli #sex tourists.