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[SHANE SMITH

VBS.TV]

Last time we talked to you, Mr. Ben Anderson,

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you had just come back from doing

a documentary on Afghanistan

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following the British troops there

and it was a bit of a cockup.

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And, now you just got back from Dubai.

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Now most people know about Dubai

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because they're trying to be

the hub of the Middle East

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and you went and found out

some stuff about...

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[BEN ANDERSON

BBC REPORTER]

The guys actually building

the big, shiny scrapers

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and the world's biggest mall

and the world's biggest acquarium

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Yea, the guys who are being paid

almost nothing to build it.

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So, they're being built by...slaves.

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That's not an exaggeration, yeah.

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Once they find themselves out there

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and they realize

how much they're getting paid

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or how much they're not getting paid,

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they're indebted

by the time they arrive there.

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So it is bonded labor.

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[SLAVES OF DUBAI

WITH BEN ANDERSON]

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We focused on

a lot of Bangladeshi workers.

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The local agents

approach them in the villages

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say, "You've heard about Dubai.

You've heard about how amazing it is.

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I can get you a job out there where

you get paid 300 pounds a month."

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Which to them is an amazing salary.

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"Pay me 2,000 pounds,"

200,000 Taca, local money

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"I'll get you out there.

It will take you 6 months, a year

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to pay off the 2,000 pounds.

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Then you'll start sending

loads of money home.

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And before you know it, you'll be

buying your family a shop

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or a farm or whatever it is."

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As soon as they land,

their passports are taken away.

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They also then find out

they're getting paid

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between 120 and 160 pounds a month.

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And this is for 6 days a week,

12 hours a day

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and living 8 men to a room

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and in what we saw were

absolutely squalid conditions.

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The dream of escaping

the dreary British winters

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and enjoying the celebs and the sun

is one many Brits share.

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So I pretended to be one of them.

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I signed up for a first group tour

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that they promised would show me

a side of Dubai

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which simply can't be revealed

from a website or newspaper article.

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The first groups sales team were adamant

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the workers building their projects

were treated well.

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The First Group workers,

do you look after them ?

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Absolutely,

they all have staff accommodation...

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I think they're pretty happy

to be here, actually,

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because it's much more difficult to

earn some money in Pakistan or India.

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So, it's all fine, I mean...

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because it's important for us

to know that they're...

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Absolutely, don't worry.

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There are no slaves here.

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So this is what I found interesting

about this is,

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this is the common perception,

even when I was there in Dubai

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is that, "Oh it's good for them."

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It looks bad to us but for them...

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Yeah, It looks bad to us

but it's good for them...

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And, we can't get onsite

to interview the workers

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but we're gonna wait until the knock off,

follow them back to their labor camp,

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and see what conditions are like on this,

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which is one of the most high profile

projects in the home of Dubai.

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This is pretty much how we worked

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for over a period

of three months out there.

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Sneak in or speak to them

before they went into the labor camp

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because there's a camp boss

at every single gate

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stopping people going in.

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You're not allowed to talk to them?

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No, no no. So we try and grab them

before they went in and say...

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What would happen if you got caught?

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Well, journalists in the past

have been imprisoned

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and been slapped with massive,

massive fines out there.

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First impressions are...

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if you didn't know this was a place

where workers lived,

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you'd think it was a place where

machinery were stored.

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No street lights...

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You can smell sewage.

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Just shoots of corrogated iron

protecting rows of huts.

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It looks like a Shanty town.

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So how many? There's 2, 4, 6, 8.

8 people in this room?

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9 people.

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Before we interviewed the workers,

the camp boss turned up.

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-Do you speak English?

-Yes, what do you want?

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What do you want?

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We want to see whether people are happy.

Is that OK?

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Not OK.

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-So, do you want us to leave?

-Yes.

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OK. Sure?

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-OK. Well, we shall leave now.

-OK, go.

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There was fear among the unit workers

about speaking to us.

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The felt they could be sacked

and sent home

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if they were discovered speaking out.

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That shot is basically

my vision of Dubai now.

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You know, all the glittering skyscrapers

on the horizon

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and you're in this black hole

a few hours away...

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which is where these guys live.

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So, what are we gonna see now?

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[BEN ANDERSON

BBC REPORTER]

We met an Indian agent

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who's been sending works

to Dubai for years,

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making a lot of money.

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And, they complain to her a lot.

And she just puts it down to them whinging

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but these guys were

particularly persistent

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so she thought she'd investigate.

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When she actually finally found these guys

it took about 2 months to find these guys

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it made her so angry, that she's now

the first agent to speak out about this

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and speak out with us.

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As we drove into it she said,

that building over there, that's it.

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You wouldn't even keep cattle

in that building.

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The story of the migrant workers

is the dark side of Dubai.

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The side, which the annual 1.1 million

British visitors to this country never see

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We'll see the living conditions

are really, really appalling.

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Almost inhuman conditions

they've been living out here.

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This is their very, very, very

sick toilet facilities available.

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That's the toilet?

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Two toilets and one shower unit

for 45 people.

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Right now I seriously wish

the world would wake up

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and look beyond the glitter to the

actual darkness which is there behind.

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I seriously don't think,

there is a lot of model consciousness

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[ALMASS PADRDIWALA

FORMER HIRING AGENT]

amongst the employers over here.

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And I would not say

just one of the company...

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most of the companies have absolutely

no regard for the human life

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or the human element of this job.

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Absolutely no regard, no.

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You see they're building a fire there.

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There is a hub in the building

but there's no gas.

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The companies don't supply them with gas.

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They just build themselves a fire

out in the backyard.

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And that's how they cook for all 45 men.

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So they don't have water,

they don't have cooking facilities.

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No, they're completely independent.

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Whatever they get,

they scrape together themselves.

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We spoke to guys who said all month

they ate bread, rice, potatoes...

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that's all they eat.

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And I said, "What about meat or fish?

Don't you ever eat meat or fish?"

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Two or three times a month

they could eat meat or fish.

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We went into one kitchen

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and we saw the guys cooking

their luxury portion of fish for the month

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and it was like four guppies.

I mean four fish like this big.

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That was all it was.

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They're easy prey for recruitment agents

in their home countries

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who charge them huge fees just

for the privilege of working in Dubai.

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On average, they pay about 2,000 pounds

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a sum of money so high

that they have to take out loan

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or sell family land to pay it.

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Yea, there are estimated 3 million

of these workers in the Arab Emirates,

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the United Arab Emirates.

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So, if they're paying 2,000 pounds each

that's some serious money.

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-What's that for?

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It's called a Visa Fee and it's supposed

to cover the Visa and the flight,

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which, of course is much less

than 2,000 pounds.

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But, that's what it's called,

is the Visa Fee.

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It's just a fee for the agent

to arrange the privilege

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of being able to go

and work in this paradise.

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-And, is there actually a Visa fee?

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It's illegal for the company or

its representatives to charge the workers

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for the Visa or the transport.

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There would be a contract sent

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[NICK MCGEEHAN

MAFTWASTA HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP]

and he would then be flown to Dubai.

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On arrival to Dubai, that contract

would effectively be ripped up.

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He would be paid, sometimes half

of what the intended salary was.

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His passport would also be confiscated.

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This Scottish guy is very interesting.

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Almas, the Indian agent,

was so outraged by what she found

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when she found these workers, that she

wrote to everybody she could think of.

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I mean, obviously everyone

in the Dubai government

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but Amnesty International, Human Rights...

Everybody. Nobody replied.

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He's the only person that replied.

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He used to work for an oil company

in Abu Dhabi

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and was so outraged by what he saw,

being done to the workers

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that he's now set up an NGO

called Maftwasta

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And, he was the only one

that replied to Almas.

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-Wow. So nobody cares.

-No.

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-So the forgotten slaves of Dubai.

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-Yea, well they're largely not there

in the first place.

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These men were shunted from camp to camp

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before ending up here

either jobless,

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or forced to serve out their contracts.

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The families they left behind,

do not receive any money from them.

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There is no get-out clause.

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Even if their passports were

returned to them,

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they couldn't afford to go home.

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They're trapped.

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Basically, yes you can say they're in,

kind of a bondage to the company...

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for the span of the contract

that they are here.

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-Isn't holding passports...

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Illegally, yes.

There are a lot of things

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that are supposed to be illegal

but they still happen here

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and it's very regular.

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That happens very often.

There are some laws in place.

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For example,

there was an law induced recently

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where, if the temperature goes above

50 degrees, I think it is,

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the workers are supposed to rest

until it gets cooler

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so as a result, the temperature

never went up above 50 degrees.

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-How can it not go above?

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Officially it never went above 50 degrees.

I mean it did go above 50 degrees.

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But, according to official records,

it never went above 50 degrees.

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So, workers never stopped working.

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There's nothing for me

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I borrowed from other people to find food.

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It's been 5 months.

He has not paid me at all.

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I had begged for food or remain hungry.

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Somehow or other I'm surviving.

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My wife and children tell me

to send some money or come back.

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Where will I go?

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[BEN ANDERSON:BBC REPORTER

SHANE SMITH:VBS.TV]

It took an hour for the workers to travel

back to their camp.

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The wanted to speak out but

didn't dare reveal their identity.

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Like every other worker we spoke to

in Dubai,

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they were in debt

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and claimed they were not being paid

the money they were promised

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by their recruiting agents.

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So I grabbed a hard hat a

and snuck in to the camp

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with a secret camera.

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Did you have to shoot a lot

on hidden camera?

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Yea, I mean a lot of the interviews,

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all of the footage inside the camps

were hidden camera.

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Cause if you get caught,

you can get in trouble.

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And allegedly, the government have got

paid informants all over the place...

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In hotels, taxis, everywhere. So, yeah.

You gotta be really carful out there.

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Basically the big thoroughfare that

separates the accommodation from the...

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is just all deep, thick mud and they say,

urine and shit from the toilets.

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Actually the areas around the toilets are

the wettest, muddiest and smelliest area

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So, I'll tell you,

they're telling the truth.

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There were so many rivers of sewage

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blocking so many of the walkways

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that workers actually set up

a network of stepping stones

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to get back to their accommodations.

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So, it must have wreaked.

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Yea, horrible. I mean, they said to me

this is all raw sewage.

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And, I didn't know whether they were

telling the truth or not.

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As soon as you get close to it,

it hits you...

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So their toilets are just going out

onto the streets.

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The area between the toilet blocks

were the most disgusting.

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There was no doubt that this was

where the problem was coming from.

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Oh, if the water worked.

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But they can't flush it away

after they've used the toilet.

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You know, I tried to check

every single tap.

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Alot of them, there was no tap to turn.

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A lot of them you turn it

and no water comes out.

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So, they can't flush it away and

it just sits there

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I got to the 4th or 5th toilet

and I just started wretching

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so I couldn't take it anymore.

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And you're not a squeamish guy.

You've been to Afghanistan,

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you've been to the Congo, you've been to

all the bad places on earth.

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I worked as an undertaker with dead bodies

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You've worked as an undertaker.

So this has got to be pretty bad.

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And the workers I spoke to that night

said this is good,

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compared to how it has been.

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In a statement, the company

blamed the workers

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saying "their standards of cleanliness

and hygiene,

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are not up to your or our standards."

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"It is very difficult to change the habits

that they unfortunately bring with them

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from their countries of origin."

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Panoramas obtain documents which reveal

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it's more likely to be Arabtic's

own cleaning regime

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which is the problem.

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A day before I filmed in

the camp toilets in January

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the Dubai authorities wanred Arabtic

about insufficient cleaning of toilets.

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The government knows about it.

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What are they doing about it?

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We were quite impressed that the

government had been there

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and said that the situation was critical

but they'd fine them 2,000 pounds.

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And they hadn't done anything.

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No, it was still awful a month later.

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We've put these allegations to the company

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and they've basically said

it's the workers' fault.

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Trade unions and collective bargaining

are illegal in Dubai.

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And, with the companies themselves

now suffering

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because of the

international financial crisis

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the consequences of complaining

are worse than ever before.

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They are telling, now that you have come

you stay and work.

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If we find any mistakes in your work,

then finish, back to Bangladesh...

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We will no longer keep you.

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If you work well,

if the company prospers in the future

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we will see what can be arranged for you.

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So, do you think there's a chance

things could improve for you here?

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We have no hope for the future.

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We are helpless.

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So, you got three million workers,

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that are brought over,

their passports are taken away.

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They're not getting paid the money

that they should.

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In fact, they don't have enough money

really to eat.

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They have squalid conditions, raw sewage.

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You just came back from there.

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How do you feel coming back

from the city of lights?

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The reality is Dubai is the

complete opposite

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of what you see on television

and magazines.

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In fact, I asked the Indian agent.

I said, "What do you think of now,

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when you see all these glossy pictures

and videos from Dubai?"

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She said, "Now I just see skeletons."

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