On the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Victim.
-International calls to abolish the sponsorship system for migrant workers in the Gulf countries.
-Yemeni workers in Saudi Arabia between oppressing the sponsor and conquering war.
The Information and Training Center for Human Rights demanded “HRITC”
The international community, in the forefront of which is the United Nations and its specialized agencies, needs to work harder to abolish all manifestations of slavery and the remnants of new slavery that still roost the millions of people Because of the procedures and laws that are against the essence of human rights and that of migrant workers and their families.
The center said in a statement today On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which falls on March 25 of each year
Slavery returns in new forms including unfair systems of migrant workers
In various countries of the world, especially Gulf Cooperation Council states
The sponsorship system remains one of the most flagrant violations of human rights, and is in violation of labor law rules.
The center’s statement said that migrant workers ’issues in different countries are not receiving enough attention despite the increasing amount of suffering with the multiplicity of images of what can be called (the new slavery)
Which includes human smuggling, humiliation of refugees and domestic workers.
Unfortunately, the procedures followed for migrant workers in the Gulf countries remain painful, as they have not been subject to any fundamental modifications, even though this file has been strongly highlighted by international human rights organizations and independent media institutions, but the United Nations still ignores this issue, which is truly a picture.
(Modern slavery)
The statement mentioned the Human Rights Information and Training Center, which is a regional organization that has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council The job market in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council depends on the expatriates, who constitute two-thirds of the total population in this region .
Lawyers believe that the approved sponsorship system in the Gulf countries is one of the most difficult systems for migrant labor and it is also a restriction of freedoms and a source of blackmail for this labor as the state transfers its authority to give residence, movement and transfer to its citizens who become (controlling sponsors) They confiscate the passports of workers and deny them the movement and control of their money and their business. The law that does the work without the sponsor’s permission also prevents the matter, which is its guarantor and prevents it from working at any other opportunity, and even controls its transfer and removal from the country whenever you want.
Multiple companies sell permits to recruit and employ workers under inhumane conditions, drawing their strength from the sponsorship system, which has not differed since Britain’s introduction of these rules in the 1920s against pearling workers in contravention of human norms, which established by the Gulf countries after that.
The center’s statement added that sponsorship cases do not differ greatly in all the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, but the situation of Yemeni workers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE is getting worse due to the war.
The situation worsened with the increase in residence fees for workers in Saudi Arabia and their families, which made tens of thousands of Yemenis victims between the difficult laws or the devastating war.
The center added that, according to a preliminary census with official bodies, there are about half a million Yemeni workers who lose their source of livelihood in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, And that deportation procedures take place in a manner that exposes them to severe insult and what compounds their suffering is that they go to the borders of a brutal and devastating war .
In its statement, the Center called on the Saudi authorities to amend the procedures for hosting Yemeni workers who live in a special circumstance necessitated by war and taking into account the geographical neighborhood between the two countries.
This includes the abolition of fees that have become very expensive for workers ’income, and the facilitation of obtaining the right to unconditional residency with a sponsor.
Tens of thousands of children deprived of the right to education and their parents denied the right to work in safe humanitarian conditions, this compounds the difficult situation for Yemenis.
Taiz – Yemen
2 / 12 / 2019
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On the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Victim.
