This is a compilation of articles concerning migrant workers in the Middle East.
- Slavery of children and women in Persian gulf countries
- Most citizens of Kazakhstan who fall victim to human trafficking are sent to the UAE
- May 26: “A group of Iranian boys and girls will be sold in an auct…
Archive for December, 2007
Links to devastating cases
December 31st, 2007
Documentation Gulf Slavery Trafficking UAE
UAE: Slavery report
December 31st, 2007
The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) remains a destination country for men and women trafficked for the purpose of involuntary servitude and commercial sexual exploitation. Women from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and the Philippines migrate willingly to the U.A.E. to work as domes...
Ratification of Human Rights
December 26th, 2007
International convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families. Download document [word file.] United Nations General Assembly – Status of ratifications [PDF]
18th December – International Migrant’s Day
December 18th, 2007
Migrant Rights in the Middle East 18th December – International Migrant’s Day Global Campaign for the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families What is the International convention on Rights of Migrant workers and members of their families? The UN and other Key Organizati...
Over Hundred Indian Workers protest in front of Embassy
December 16th, 2007
Kuwait City: Dec 12 Abubakar A. Ibrahim Over a Hundred Indian workers on Wednesday staged a protest in front of the Indian Embassy to air their grievances against their company which allegedly ordered their arrest. Four armed policemen on Tuesday raided the apartment of the workers where they assau...
Bahrain rights group highlight migrant worker situation
December 14th, 2007
An excerpt from a recent article published on the Bahrain Center for Human Rights: The BCHR feels, however, that special attention must be given to the plight of female migrant domestic workers, as they have been by and large ignored and excluded from the discourse on women’s rights in Bahrain...
A Step in the right direction : Amir Communtes Filipina maid’s death sentence
December 10th, 2007
Published Date: December 09, 2007 KUWAIT CITY: Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah agreed on Sunday to commute the death sentence on a Filipina maid to life in prison after a personal appeal by the visiting Philippine president. “Normally I don’t interfere in the judicial process. We h...
Report: Sri Lankan Maids Overworked
December 8th, 2007
Housemaids News Women Working conditions
By BARBARA SURK for the Associated Press. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Foreign housemaids in the oil-rich Gulf sometimes work 21-hour days without medical care, enough food, or the right to go home, and they also face violence and harassment, a human rights report said Wednesday. DubaiR...
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