DUBAI – All the actions and steps being taken by the Dubai Municipality to end the menace of sewage accumulation in labour accommodations, the increase in penalties and intensifying inspections seem to turn sour if one visits the Al Quoz area and witnesses the deplorable conditions of people living amidst the sewage.

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Since the length of the room is only slightly larger than the height of an adult male, the workers have to make vertical arrangements by having two sleep on a two-level bunk bed while the other two sleep on the tiles beneath. A fan is attached to a wall to keep them cool.

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Housing_and_Property/10258079.html

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‘We need slaves to build monuments’- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Behind the dizzying construction boom is an army of migrant labourers lured into a life of squalor and exploitation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/gallery/2008/oct/08/1?picture=338366526

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