Saudi Arabia has come under scrutiny time and again for its treatment of foreign workers under the kafala system. This ...

Discover why Saudi Arabia abolished the 50-year-old Kafala labor sponsorship system, once seen as 'modern-day slavery.' Learn ...

Saudi Arabia has scrapped its decades-old Kafala system, freeing 13 million migrant workers, including 2.6 million Indians, ...

The term Kafala, meaning 'sponsorship' in Arabic, came to represent a system across the Gulf under which employers exercised ...

THE chairman of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs has welcomed Saudi Arabia’s abolition of the Kafala system, ...

Saudi Arabia has abolished the Kafala system, a labour sponsorship scheme that governed the rights and lives of millions of ...

A historic reform in Saudi Arabia. After nearly seven decades, the Kafala system — long condemned as a tool of modern-day ...

Under the Kafala system, foreign workers required a Saudi sponsor who controlled their visa and legal status, and in most ...

Saudi Arabia has scrapped its decades-old Kafala system, freeing 13 million migrant workers, including 2.6 million Indians, ...

The Kafala system is a sponsorship framework introduced in the 1950s in Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, to regulate ...

For more than seven decades, the Kafala system governed the lives of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia—often in silence, often ...

Saudi Arabia ended its 50-year long Kafala system, in a landmark labour reform for the Kingdom. Migrants are set to benefit ...