A shipyard worker sits inside the hull of a dhow, in Dubai Indian workers

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Traditional trade
A shipyard worker sits inside the hull of a dhow while carving one the boat's ribs with a chisel at the Saif Mohammed al-Qaizi shipyard in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday. Expatriate workers, mostly from southern India, use traditional methods to build sea-going ships, called dhows, which can measure up to 60m in length and are used to ferry cargo between the UAE, other Persian Gulf nations, Iran, India, Pakistan and East Africa. The larger ships can take up to a year to build. Other than the saws used to cut the tree trunks into planks and beams, almost no other electrical tools are used.

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I'd like to see an investigative report on the conditions the Indian workers endure.