The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) plans to lift the ban on sending non-domestic workers to Lebanon in February 2010. The ban was imposed three and a half years ago during the 2006 Lebanon War; It will be lifted only for hotel and restaurant workers. According to Philippine gov…
Archive for December, 2009
Israeli Migrant Rights NGO Highlights the Real “Survivors”
December 31st, 2009
Abusive employers Israel Videos
The Israeli worker rights NGO Kav LaOved (Hotline for the Worker) recently launched a campaign to highlight the plight of migrant workers in Israel. The NGO used the hype around the third season of Israeli Survivor, which takes place in the Philippines to show that the real survivors aren’t th...
Saudi Kidnaps and Enslaves Indian Worker
December 30th, 2009
The Arab Times reported today about the case on an Indian worker in Saudi Arabia who was kidnapped by a Saudi man and brought to the desert to tend to his herd of camels. The worker, Noushad (28) tried to contact his sponsor but his abductor threatened to kill him as he took him 180 kilometers away...
Lebanon: Holiday deaths among migrant workers
December 29th, 2009
Al-Akhbar Newspaper reported today the following. During the Christmas weekend, between 23 and 25 December, 4 migrant workers were found dead. One dark skin man (unknown) was found in Nahr El Mot area, and it appears that he had fallen from a high place. In Tripoli, an ethiopian maid was found dead ...
Remittances: The Reality Behind the ‘Shiny’ Statistics
December 27th, 2009
This thought-provoking article from Bangladeshi paper The Star, ‘Remittance: Behind the Shiny Statistics’ explores the story behind statistics that suggest that migrant workers are still able to send plenty of money back home despite the financial crisis. Despite the economic crisis an...
The Impact of the Dubai Financial Crisis on Indian Workers
December 26th, 2009
Al Jazeera English recently showed a report about the impact of the financial crisis in the Gulf on Indian migrant workers. Many of the people interviewed have lost their jobs and some are on forced leaves. According to a recent study by an Indian think-tank, 264,000 workers from South Asia have los...
UAE: Couple Guilty of Forcing Three Women into Prostitution Receives Lenient Sentence
December 26th, 2009
The Gulf News reported earlier this week that the Iraqi couple that forced two women and one girl into prostitution in the UAE, was sentenced to three years in prison each. As we’ve previously mentioned, the couple held a 17-year-old girl and two Iraqi women in an apartment in Sharjah and forc...
The dreams of foreign maids in Lebanon turn into nightmares
December 25th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Legal cases Slavery Suicide
The following is a translation on an article that appeared in the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat last week. The dreams of foreign maids in Lebanon turn into nightmares The rise of suicide rates to one case a week due to maltreatment, and humanitarian organizations ring the alarm bells Friday, 18 De...
Abusive Employer to be Tried in the UAE
December 25th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Legal cases Slavery UAE
A Filipino maid who was abused by her employer will testify before a court in Ajman, UAE in two weeks, the National Newspaper reported today. According to the report, the 25-year-old maid, Marilyn Vinluan, was repeatedly slapped, kicked and beaten with an electrical wire by her female employer, whil...
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