It’s billed as the most ambitious private development in the world – a place where the rich can indulge their every fantasy. But what’s the human cost of Dubai’s artificial islands?

Off the coast of Dubai, a new world is literally rising from the sea. Developers are creating 300 islands in the shape of a world – each country to be sold to a private investor. “Dubai’s the place right now,” raves developer Robert Lee. But the foreign workers building the islands enjoy few rights. Banned from joining unions, they labour in miserable conditions

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