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Human rights advocates have shined a spotlight on the plight of maids from South Asia imported to the Middle East. The nonprofit group Human Rights Watch has accused the Lebanese and other governments in the Middle East of failing to curb…
Archive for November, 2007
No domestic bliss
November 17th, 2007
Bangla workers most vulnerable
November 17th, 2007
First published in Bahrain Tribune, by Titus Filio: Bangladeshi migrant workers remain to be among the most vulnerable foreign workforce groups in Bahrain, according to human rights activists who discussed their plight at a workshop in Dhaka this week. Low salaries, working without documents, lack o...
Sri Lanka abuse ‘rampant’ in Gulf
November 15th, 2007
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Women
BBC reports: Gulf states are failing to curb serious abuses of Sri Lankan migrant workers employed as maids in their countries, a Human Rights Watch report has said. The US-based group says abuse of maids is rampant in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Lebanon. Employers routinely ...
Gulf states ‘fail to curb abuse of maids’
November 14th, 2007
The Financial Times reports: The governments of the Gulf are failing to curb the abuse of domestic workers, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The pressure group called on states such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to widen existing labour regulations to cover maids, most of...
Bridge collapse in Dubai kills 7 workers and injures 15
November 9th, 2007
UAE Workers Working conditions
From the BBC: Dubai’s economy has boomed in recent years, fuelled largely by a construction industry reliant on low-paid workers, many from South Asia. The labourers were employed by the Wade Adams Group, a contracting company based in the Middle East. More than 40 people were working on the b...
Family of Condemmed Filipina (Marilou Ronario) seeks help
November 7th, 2007
Housemaids Kuwait Legal cases Prisoners
Kuwait times – Wednesday November 7, 2007 The family of an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) sentenced to death by a Kuwaiti Court is calling on President Macapagal Arroyo for more help. Rosario Ranario, father of Marilou Ranario said more government help was needed not that the Kuwaiti Supreme ...
Yet another strike for their rights
November 1st, 2007
Gulf Kuwait Workers Working conditions
1st November 2007- Kuwait Times Nancy Otefia, Kuwait More than 250 Bangladeshi employees working for a local cleaning company near Al Shaab Leisure Park went on strike for not receiving their salaries and being thrown out of their accommodations. Many of these workers have spent a year in this compa...
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