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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are also A LOT of human rights violations in Dubai with respect to the (mostly) South Asian workers they bring over to do a lot of contruction and lower service jobs.  [/quote]

Have you been there?  Have you ever been to a labor camp?  Spoken to one or more workers? Or, are you basing this on carefully curated news reports?

You're correct though, there are abuses. Just as there are everywhere. Including here in the US. Just look at all the wage and labor violations here. Human rights violations, go to any inner city. Or southern rural area. Or western area.

The fact is, that while these conditions seem harsh to you, the laborer you are yearning protection for is far better off than he was living in a slum in Mumbai or Kolkata. By working in the ME, many laborers are then in a position to purchase property in their home countries. Send their children to school. Have hope.

Just because the abuses are highlighted here by the media doesn't mean that the reality is not substantially different.

And yes. I lived there. Was appalled and actually went to the labor camps. Met people. And paid a lot of my own personal money to help purchase food for them. Not that they were starving or even poorly fed. But being able to help 100 people by buying them rice or sugar for a month letting them save a bit more was satisfying. To me.

And to be clear, I was a banker. Not an aid worker. [/quote]

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