Construction workers leave Yas Island after a day's work in Abu Dhabi, April 21, 2009. (Mosab Omar/Reuters)

NYU unveils labor guidelines for Abu Dhabi campus

Human rights advocates warn that the workers building NYU's new campus could be forced laborers.

By Tom Hundley
Published: February 5, 2010 06:44 ET

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — New York University (NYU) is building what it describes as “the first world-class liberal arts university in the Middle East” in this oil-rich city state, but human rights activists fear it will be doing so with an army of Third World laborers who are earning less than a dollar an hour in conditions of forced labor.

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