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

Saudi Arabia abolishes Kafala System after 50 years, granting freedom and new rights to millions of migrant workers. Learn ...

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

The kafala system in Gulf countries enables employers to seize passports, control movement, institutionalise abuse and turn ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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