Appeal For Help: Pakistani workers stranded in UAE

CHENNAI: Around 100 migrant workers from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are stranded at a labour camp in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after their sponsor refused to renew their work permits or pay them with food, water and sanitation at the camp. In a video clip by 15 Indian migrant workers confined at the camp in Ghayathi, Abu Dhabi, they urged their government to repatriate them. “Our employment contract, visas, labour card and the resident identity card has expired, but the sponsor has not renewed them, forcing employees to work without wages,” said the video and written appeal produced by the migrants. “Please help us reunite with our families,” said one of the Indian migrant workers from Tamil Nadu in the video appeal.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 26^th, 2016.