August 27th, 2008
Housemaids Lebanon Suicide Working conditions
In a recently released report, Human Rights Watch stated that every week, more than one domestic worker dies due to unnatural reasons in Lebanon.
“Domestic workers are dying in Lebanon at a rate of more than one per week,” said Nadim Houry, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. “All those …
August 19th, 2008
This is an interesting commentary from the South China Morning Post: Foreign domestic helpers are guaranteed protection from abusive employers by Hong Kong law. Whatever their rights, though, it is a brave maid who goes to police alleging assault or to the Labour Department to fight for unpaid wages...
August 19th, 2008
In Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Gulf, there are no formal shelters for abused maids. If a housemaid runs away, more often than not, it is because of her discomfort in a certain house or because of mistreatment, but there is nowhere that she can go. Police or the agency that she came through will sen...
August 17th, 2008
This news, previously reported here and here, is still being written about in international news outlets. Once again it shows the act of despair from the Sri Lankan government, which sees no other way to prevent abuse against Sri Lankan maids, something that has become common in the Gulf region. Non...
August 14th, 2008
About two weeks ago, we reported this news on the Sri Lankan government decreasing the number of domestic maids being sent into Saudi Arabia, due to an increasingly large record of abuse. Arab News has picked up the story, reporting the following: Kingsley Ranawaka, chairman of the Sri Lanka Bureau ...
August 7th, 2008
Abusive employers Bahrain Legal cases Working conditions
In July 2006, a blaze at a labour camp in Gudaibiya left 16 Indian workers dead. The workers were made to live in a squalid, overcrowded camp, with outrageously poor facilities. Not only were appropriate safety measures ignored, but the windows were sealed shut, limiting the workers’ means of ...
August 5th, 2008
Many domestic workers have been abused in Saudi Arabia. In fact the situation is so bad that some maids are even beaten to death. The country has yet to react in an effective manner, and for at least a decade it has been unresponsive to common reports of abuse. Earlier last month the Saudi governmen...
August 3rd, 2008
We have documented a wide range of articles concerning abuse against Sri Lankan workers. The government of Sri Lanka is reacting to the large and increasing amount of abuse cases by limiting the number of Sri Lankan workers coming to work in the Arab world, where abuse against maids is common. This ...
August 1st, 2008
Abusive employers Kuwait Sponsorship
After days of violent protests that left tens injured and hundreds arrested and facing an imminent threat of deportation, workers in Kuwait ended a violent strike that was sparked by their poor living conditions. he workers, mostly of Bangladeshi origin, destroyed equipment and assaulted workers dem...
© 2010 Migrant Rights - All rights reserved
Loading...