Eighty Ethiopian women have been held in Tripoli women’s prison in Beirut for over a year, for the crime of not possessing a passport. However, many of these women have had their passports taken away from them by their employers – or never had one in the first place. You can read the ful…
Archive for April, 2009
New UAE media law could threaten reporting on migrant abuses
April 15th, 2009
A proposed law in the UAE could severely curtail press freedom, making it a criminal offence for the media to ‘knowingly damange’ the country’s reputation. The law has been suggested in response to a slew of criticism that the UAE has faced over recent corporate scandals and the fa...
Urgent: Indian Woman Falsely Imprisoned in Bahrain
April 15th, 2009
Mrs Durga is a 33 year old Indian national currently imprisoned in Bahrain. She was working as a housemaid for a Bahraini employer, but was paid only BD20 per month instead of BD50 promised to her in her contract, after an Indian employment broker based in Bahrain claimed most of her salary as a ...
Hell for Migrants: The Dark Side of Dubai
April 7th, 2009
I urge you all to read this article by British journalist Johann Hari, The Dark Side of Dubai, which deals which contains a heartbreaking description of the conditions enduring by migrant construction workers in the Emirate. Hari goes where few journalists venture, to a labour camp away from the gl...
HIV Threat to Migrant Women
April 5th, 2009
Female migrant workers are increasingly vulnerable to contracting the HIV virus, according to a recent report by the UNDP, ‘HIV Vulnerabilities of Migrant Women: From Asia to the Arab States‘ Not only are many migrant women working as domestic maids sexually abused by their employers, ...
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