In a press release issued on 16 August, the Social Security Corporation announced that more than two thousand pensions of individuals who did not renew their personal status cards will be suspended at the end of August.

The Labour House Centre stated that Jordanian and non-Jordanian agricultural workers in the country are subject to numerous violations due to the lack of legal protection.

Dozens of refugees and asylum seekers have been protesting for more than a week in the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Zarzis.

Hassan Al-Halwaji, Deputy Secretary-General of the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU), confirmed that the proposed amendments to the retirement law, which were submitted to the Parliament, will affect the workers’ rights, including the annual increase in the pension of retirees.

The British newspaper The Guardian published a report by the human rights NGO Equidem showing that several migrant workers at Expo 2020 in Dubai were victims of abuse that amounts to forced labour.