# David Segall, policy associate in Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights, comments on the exploitation of migrant workers in the Middle East

1 Faculty News January 25, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://paidpost.nytimes.com/aware/the-states-of-forced-labor.html) -- "'At its core, it’s about global inequality,' says David Segall, a policy associate at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. 'Because of that supply and demand, workers have a strong incentive not to ruffle any feathers by asserting their rights,' adds Segall, who focuses on the recruitment and migration of construction workers from South Asia to the Persian Gulf."

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