Saudi Arabia has officially abolished its decades-old Kafala system, a labour sponsorship model that long governed the lives of millions of migrant workers. The landmark decision, announced in June ...

In Lebanon, tens of thousands of migrants work under the so-called "kafala" system. Human and migrants' rights organizations describe it as modern-day slavery.Abang Sharon arrived in Lebanon on April ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — New labor rules in the energy-rich nation of Qatar “effectively dismantles” the country’s long-criticized “kafala” employment system, a U.N. labor body said Sunday.

The 2022 World Cup is getting underway soon in Qatar. For our Econ Extra Credit series this month, we decided to watch “The Workers Cup,” which documents the lives of some of the migrant workers that ...

Qatar on Monday formally announced the end of its controversial "kafala" system, arguably the biggest ever labour reform undertaken by the 2022 football World Cup host nation. In a long-expected ...

Saudi Arabia this month confirmed it had abolished the controversial 50-year-old kafala labour sponsorship system reviled as 'modern-day slavery', allowing employers - called kafeel - inhuman levels ...

RIYADH, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to cancel a foreign worker sponsorship system, known as kafala, and replace it with a new form of contract between employers and employees, the financial ...

In a historic labor reform, Saudi Arabia has abolished its decades-old Kafala system, which linked the employment and residency of workers to their employers. The move was announced in June 2025 as ...

The Migrant Workers Task Force (MWTF), a Lebanese NGO comprising of Lebanese and international activists, including Migrant Workers, has launched a campaign aiming at tackling the notorious Kafala (or ...

While employer-tied visas are becoming increasingly widespread as a tool of immigration control, their most extreme example remains the Kafala system in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council ...