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Scroll. Click. Suffer: The Hidden Human Cost of Content Moderation and Data Labelling
Launched on May 28, 2025, ‘Scroll. Click. Suffer.’ is Equidem’s in-depth investigation into the hidden workforce behind AI and social media—data labellers and content moderators. Based on interviews with 113 workers across Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and The Philippines, the report exposes the extreme occupational, psychological, sexual, and economic harms faced by those moderating violent content…
Realising Decent Work in the Platform Economy: Addressing Intermediated Platform Employment in Food Delivery and Data Work
Launched in May 2025, this Equidem brief exposes the systemic abuse faced by food delivery riders and data workers—such as content moderators and data labellers—who are hired through third-party logistics (3PL) and outsourcing (BPO) firms. Drawing on interviews with over 200 workers across the Gulf, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, it reveals how global platforms…
Shattered Dreams, Hidden Trauma
The Systemic Abuse of East African Care Workers in the Gulf This briefing paper documents first-hand accounts of East African care workers in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE,) exposing the systemic cycles of abuse they endure. It also sets out clear recommendations for governments, businesses, and investors to ensure these essential workers…
Rush to renewables: Toward migrant worker rights and a just energy transition in the Gulf
No region is immune to the reality of the climate crisis: extreme weather events, mass climate-induced migration, and direct consequences for the cultures, livelihoods, and lives of workers and communities In response, even the world’s most notorious petrostates have rightly joined the global effort to avert climate catastrophe Between 2013 and 2022, the Gulf Cooperation…
Climate Change In The World Of Work: Violence at The Systemic Edge
A systemic edge is a site where general conditions take extreme forms. Climate-impacted workers are at a systemic edge: they are pushed out of their livelihoods and their homes and enter employment far below decent work standards. This research brief compiles the experiences of 700 climate impacted workers from Asia and Africa who find employment…
Unjust Transitions: Climate Migration, Heat Stress, and Labour Exploitation in the United Arab Emirates
Workers at the heart of the United Arab Emirates’s renewable and gig sectors, and at the site that will host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) have left homes in Africa and Asia because of climate change only to be subjected to physical abuse, heat stress, exploitation and discrimination, a new report from Equidem reveals….
