FIFA World Cup 2026: The Beautiful Game Cannot Hide an Ugly Reality
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup gets underway across the United States, Mexico and Canada, Equidem is calling on FIFA, host governments and corporate partners to urgently uphold the rights of workers, migrants, players, referees, fans and local communities connected to the tournament. Drawing on more than five years of research into labour rights abuses…Delivering the Digital Economy: African Migrant Workers in the United Arab Emirates E-Commerce and Delivery Sectors
This briefing by Equidem documents the experiences of African migrant workers employed in e-commerce and app-based delivery platforms in the United Arab Emirates. Based on testimonies from 13 workers originating from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, and Sudan, the report exposes a hidden labour system marked by recruitment debt, deceptive hiring practices, excessive working hours, wage…
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United Arab Emirates: Protect Migrant Workers from Religious Profiling, Arbitrary Detention, and Deportation
Statement by Equidem “We have been abandoned twice, once by the country we worked in, and once by the country we belong to. I lost not just my job, but my hope too. There is no certainty waiting for me, and I do not know what to do or where to begin.” — Mohammad Malik,…
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A Moment for Hope, A Moment for Workers
There are moments in history when everything familiar seems to come undone. And then there are moments when, from the fractures of that disorder, new forms of courage, solidarity and collective power begin to emerge. We are living through both. Across continents, people who labour for a living are confronting pressures that are no longer…
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Mass layoffs in Kenya raise serious concerns over Meta’s evasion of corporate accountability
Equidem raises serious concerns over the mass layoffs of more than 1,100 workers in Nairobi, Kenya, following the termination of contracts between Meta and its contractor Sama. These redundancies occur in the wake of sustained judicial scrutiny of labour practices in Kenya’s technology supply chains. Rather than using this moment to correct documented harms, Meta’s…
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