Migrant workers in Kuwait are not allowed to form labor unions or work syndicates, while Kuwaiti employers were granted this right in the emirate’s new labor law.
Much criticism has been leveled against Kuwait’s new labor law, which was passed late last year, for not going far enough and…
Archive for March, 2010
Kuwait Doesn’t Allow Migrants to Form Labor Unions
March 31st, 2010
Lebanon: Ethiopian Suicides Blog and Nasawiya NGO Move to Action on MDWs for Labor Day
March 30th, 2010
Ethiopian Suicides Blog and Nasawiya are concocting several actions and events to celebrate Labor day 2010 and to highlight the plight of more than 200,000 laborers in Lebanon: migrant domestic workers. Maids are falling from the windows and balconies of employers and employment offices under dubiou...
Every Two Days a Migrant Worker Attempts or Commits Suicide in Kuwait
March 28th, 2010
Housemaids Kuwait Sponsorship Suicide Workers
As we at Migrant-Rights.org continue to monitor the situation of migrant workers in the Middle East, the frequent reports on cases of suicide by workers in Kuwait continue to draw our attention. We have previously covered the phenomenon when during November 2009 there were 13 reported cases of suici...
Lebanon: Sit-In in Solidarity with Refugees Detained Arbitrarily
March 27th, 2010
CLDH (Lebanese Center for Human Rights) held last Thursday a sit-in in solidarity with arbitrarily detained refugees in front of the underground retention center of the General Security in Adlieh (Beirut). This sit-in, which CLDH urgently called for given the very serious deterioration of the situat...
A Casket of Dreams: Deaths of Nepali Migrants Overseas
March 26th, 2010
This feature, ‘A Casket of Dreams’ appeared in the Kathmandu Post recently, one of Nepal’s leading English language dailies. Deepak Adhikari investigates the impact of the all-too-common phenomenon of deaths of Nepali workers overseas on their families. A Casket of Dreams One dri...
Tales from the Gulf’s ‘Back End’
March 25th, 2010
Readers of Migrant Rights might be interested in this review of Drumbeat, a novel by Egyptian writer Mohammed Al-Bisatie. The novel, now available in English translation through AUC Publications deals with the lives of migrant workers in the UAE. The entire native population of a tiny, unnamed Emira...
Nepali Labourers Strike in Saudi
March 25th, 2010
Saudi Arabia Workers Working conditions
Thirty Nepali cleaners have gone on strike at King Abdulalziz International Airport in Saudi Arabia over poor working conditions and unpaid wages, according to this article in Maktoob Business. The workers, who have been protesting since Feb 8th, say that their passports have been confiscated, and t...
Lebanon: Call for a Solidarity Sit-In with the Refugees who are Arbitrarily Detained
March 24th, 2010
The Lebanese Center for Human Rights has called for a solidarity sit-in with refugees arbitrarily detained by the Lebanese General Security, this Thursday March 25th at 12:00 p.m. at the Adlieh roundabout, in front of the General Security retention center (under Elias Hraoui bridge). The call comes ...
Thai Worker Dies from Palestinian Rocket Fire as Israeli Employers Neglect Workers’ Safety
March 20th, 2010
On Thursday a 30-year-old Thai worker was killed from a Palestinian rocket that exploded in the Netiv HaAsara village in southern Israel. The rocket was launched by the Ansar al-Sunnah militant organization from the Gaza strip. Tom Mehager of the Israeli migrant rights NGO Kav LaOved explained that...
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