Saudi Arabia: Foreign Workers

Saudi Arabia is an average sized country, roughly one-fifth the size of the United States, in the Middle East. The population is roughly twenty-seven million people. It is the birth place of the Islamic religion, which is Saudi Arabia’s main religion. Most of the country is desert and they have a dry hot climate. Saudi Arabia’s main export is oil. According to the article “U.S. Relations with Saudi Arabia.” Saudi Arabia gives the United States over one million barrels of oil every day. Although Saudi Arabia has a great economy they have very many conflicts within the county. In one instance, a person not from Saudi Arabia gouged out another man’s eye with a set of jumper cables at a gas station. While he was in prison he was given the opportunity to pay the man’s medical bills which was twenty-five thousand dollars. Instead his punishment was the old saying of “an eye for an eye”, so the government ordered for his eye to be gouged out and he had to pay for the man’s medical bills (“Saudi Arabia Court…”). We as a nation should care about Saudi Arabia because their foreign workers are being mistreated, domestic abuse is very high, and women have little to no rights in Saudi Arabia.

In Saudi Arabia they abuse the rights of foreign workers. There was one case in Saudi Arabia where over three hundred foreigners were working twelve hour days six days a week living in small rooms with fourteen people in each room. There are over 8.8 million foreign workers in Saudi Arabia. With those 8.8 million foreign workers in Saudi Arabia that means that for every one foreign worker there are two native Saudis (“Saudi Arabia: Foreign…”). In the article “Workers’ Hell in Saudi Arabia.” it states that foreigners account for sixty-seven percent of th...

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