The UN’s IRIN News recently published a report about the difficulties Nepal’s government is having with preventing its women from traveling to the Gulf to work there in the domestic labor sector. According to Nepali activists, there is a growing problem of trafficking of women to the Gul…
Archive for November, 2009
Nepal Struggling to Prevent Trafficking of Women to the Gulf
November 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Kuwait Slavery Trafficking UAE
Philippine Fact-Finding Mission Calls for a Ban on Sending Maids to the Middle East
November 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Saudi Arabia Slavery UAE
A three-member delegation of the Philippine House Committee on Workers Affairs visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan during October and found egregious violations of migrant rights in all three countries. The mission was sent following a rise in reports about cases of abuse of Filipino workers in...
Daily Star Reports on the Nepal Deployment Ban to Lebanon
November 30th, 2009
The most-read English daily in Lebanon, The Daily Star, published a report today about the move by Nepal’s government to ban women from working in Lebanon as domestic workers. This moves comes following the alarming rise in number of suicides by housemaids in Lebanon, two of whom were Nepalese...
Maid Commits Suicide in Kuwait by Setting Herself on Fire
November 29th, 2009
The Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai reported today about the case of a maid who committed suicide in Kuwait in her employer’s house in Al-Nahdha. The maid poured gasoline on her body and set herself on fire. Kuwaiti emergency crews found the black, burned body in the bathroom. The paper doesn’t pro...
Rise in Suicides among Migrant Workers in Oman
November 29th, 2009
The National Newspaper (UAE), recently reported about an alarming rise in the number of suicides by migrant workers in Oman, according to hospital staff. Maryam Busaidy, a nurse at the Royal Hospital in Muscat told the paper that “It is not uncommon for the hospital to receive emergency cases of p...
Nepal Stops Allowing Women to Leave for Work in Lebanon
November 29th, 2009
Following the string of suicides by maids in Lebanon, Nepal’s Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) announced its decision to stop granting permissions for women to work in Lebanon as domestic worker. Nepal News reported that the Nepali recruitment agencies, which were supposed to build shel...
Indonesian Sex Slave in Saudi Arabia Shares her Harrowing Tale
November 28th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Rape Saudi Arabia Slavery Trafficking
CNN carried a report last week about a former Indonesian sex slave in Saudi Arabia. At the age of 17 the woman was promised a job as a maid in Saudi Arabia by an Indonesian recruitment agency. Coming from a poor family, she was happy to be selected for the job out of hundreds of other women. The emp...
Kuwait: Two Asian Workers Found Dead; Maid Injured Trying to Escape Abuse
November 28th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Kuwait Suicide
Two bodies of Asian migrant workers were found in Kuwait this week, Arab Times reported recently. In the first case, a Nepalese man in his 40s was found dead in the apartment he rented in Abbassiya. His body was taken to the Forensic Department to determine the cause of death. In a second case, a 38...
Abusive Saudi Employer Keeps his Filipino Driver in Jail
November 28th, 2009
Abusive employers News Prisoners Saudi Arabia
We have received alarming news about a Filipino man who is currently jailed in Saudi Arabia after suffering months of abuse from his employer while working without pay. The man’s employer is not making any attempts to help his worker, trying to extort money from him. The man, R. M. (full name ...
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