Migrant Workers in the Gulf
'Migrant Workers in the Gulf: Challenges of Human Rights Activism and Advocacy’ supported by an IRC New Foundations Award
- 15 Jan 2014
‘Migrant Workers in the Gulf: Challenges of Human Rights Activism and Advocacy’
Dr Nicholas McGeehan, Human Rights Watch, London
Monday: January 20th
Time: 12.30-2pm
Venue: Law Dept, Áras na Laoi, Room AL1.64 (first floor)
All Welcome
Biography
Nicholas McGeehan is the Bahrain, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates researcher at the leading international human rights NGO, Human Rights Watch. His advocacy and research has focused primarily on issues relating to migrant domestic workers, child slavery and the exploitation of migrant construction workers in the Arabian Gulf. Dr McGeehan is a graduate of the European University Institute, Florence, NUI Galway, and the University of Strathclyde. Prior to working for Human Rights Watch, he founded and managed an NGO that campaigned for migrant workers’ rights in the Gulf. He is the author of numerous journal articles and comment pieces, including, most recently: “Trafficking in persons or state sanctioned exploitation? The false narrative of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates”, in Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law (2012, Vol. 26, No. 1) and; ‘Spinning Slavery: The Role of the United States and UNICEF in the Denial of Justice for the Child Camel Jockeys of the United Arab Emirates’, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 5, Issue 1, Pp. 96-124. Dr McGeehan is a regular contributor to the Guardian on issues relating to migrant workers’ rights, and has also produced a documentary, The Sand Trap, on child slavery and ‘how to get away with it’, examining the exploitation of child camel jockeys in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
This event is supported by an IRC New Foundations Award.
