BBC Arabic debates with audiences in Jordan, Kuwait and Sudan

As part of a season of programmes exploring workers' rights, BBC Arabic will broadcast live from Kuwait on Wednesday 15 November and Jordan on Wednesday 29 November at 1500 GMT. The programmes involve studio audiences as well as BBC Arabic listeners who will call in from around the world. They will focus on issues around migrant and domestic workers and the events will be broadcast on national television in Kuwait and Jordan.

The services website bbcarabic.com will feature video diaries taking an inside look at the lives of migrant and domestic workers. The debates are part of a BBC Arabic and BBC World Service Trust initiative and is supported, in part, by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

BBC Arabic will also meet with audiences in Sudan with its Sudan: Voices and views from within roadshow. The roadshow features three main topics; the education of women, migration from the countryside to the city and development and unemployment. The first debate takes place in Khartoum on Monday 4 December before moving on to Wad Medani on Wednesday 6 December and then Port Sudan on Saturday 9 December. The debates will broadcast through BBC Arabic flagship programmes Talking Point and BBC Extra. Arabic speakers across the world will have access to a wide range of in-depth video and audio features exploring the issues.

The debates follow BBC Arabic's successful five-week Your future... who decides it? interactive road show which met 270,000 young people in Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, West Bank and Syria earlier this year.