"Who is to blame for Gulf's deserted labor force?" 5 May 2020

South Asians who form the backbone of the Gulf economies have been left to fend for themselves during the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Their predicament] has raised the question: who is responsible for this global workforce during a crisis?...

Experts at the London-based Business & Human Rights Resource Centre say employers should bear the brunt of the responsibility, given their control over these workers...

[who are] “in a particular position of disadvantage and therefore incredibly vulnerable”... representatives Isobel Archer and Danielle McMullan [said]...

The Covid-19 crisis is exposing systemic problems... they said. “Workers are in the Gulf only because they work on these projects … we do not want the private sector to push the responsibility on the state.”