Migrant rights initiative

Saudi Arabia

Choose a score

Protection. Does the country protect this right for migrants in national law?

Saudi Arabia 2023

  • Groups of rights:
  • ADMISSION AND LEGAL STATUS
  • NON-DISCRIMINATION AND VULNERABILITY
  • SOCIAL RIGHTS
  • INTEGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP
  • CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

Change the order


Compare by

or


share on

Saudi Arabia offers migrants the second-lowest raw protection and implementation- adjusted protection scores in the database, after Australia. Legal Personhood received full protection in national law. In the Legal Personhood category although a Ministerial Decree that was issued in 2015 prohibit and sanction any practice of passport confiscation by employers, thus protecting migrant workers' rights to possess their own documents, this right is only sometimes implemented....

Dig deeper

Choose a category to learn more

Publications

More publications

No publications found.

About

The Migrant Rights Initiative conducts cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on the human rights of migrants and then fosters opportunities for innovative action that reshapes the way governments treat people who cross international borders. Our Migrant Rights Database (MRD) evaluates how countries protect and implement 17 categories of rights according to 65 standardized indicators, based on the Initiative’s International Migrants Bill of Rights (IMBR).

about the initiativecontact us

Find us on Twitter

Copyright © 2023 - Migrant Rights Initiative