Comments on: April 2010: Another Bloody Month for Migrant Workers in Kuwait

By: Mideast Youth » Blog Archive » Suicides among migrants in Kuwait persist at an alarming rate - Thinking Ahead

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:57:11 +0000

[...] documented 17 cases of suicide and attempted suicide by domestic workers in Kuwait. During April, 12 migrant workers attempted or succeeded in ending their lives in Kuwait. During March and the end of February, there [...]

By: Mideast Youth – Thinking Ahead » Blog Archive » Migrant workers continue to commit suicide at an alarming rate in Kuwait - Promoting a fierce but respectful dialogue among the highly diverse youth of the Middle East

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:29:21 +0000

[...] of a trend we’ve been monitoring for quite some time on Migrant-Rights.org. During April, 12 migrant workers attempted or succeeded in ending their lives in Kuwait. During March and the end of February, there [...]

By: Migrant workers continue to commit suicide at an alarming rate in Kuwait

Migrant workers continue to commit suicide at an alarming rate in Kuwait — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:23:41 +0000

By: ria

ria — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:03:03 +0000

i just want to ask that why kuwaiti government iz not treating us as humans they are taking from us huge house rents, medial insurance after 2 years. females are not feeling safe because of youth here in front of any boys school you will see unplesent scenes. after every 3 month they put restrictions on visas? where to go i dont know very depreesed situation.

By: John

John — Sun, 23 May 2010 18:23:18 +0000

Name,
What are the issues u raised, is there a specific point. Everyday I read the Kuwait papers and you have an expat housemaid/driver/laborer committing suicide or attempting suicide. Yet, the Kuwait government there are not any human rights issues in this country. The Kuwait and other Middle Eastern countries will continue to hide the problems of domestic workers. When other countries come to investigate, they hide the abuses because these governments are giving a time frame when they are going to be visited by a foreign delegation. There needs to be United Nations sanctions put on these countries until Human Rights violations are resolved.

By: NAME

NAME — Sun, 23 May 2010 04:32:53 +0000

I would like to raise 2 issues here :

1. the workers living condition : workers are paid, they could have rented a decent place to live in, instead they decide to live in slums and streets to save all the salary they earn.
*( it is the responsibility of the Employer to provide salary including housing ) or maybe offer housing benifits / deduct housing fees ( salary+house ) or salary – housing fees.

2. the responsibility of Agencies that collect fees from both Employers and Employees.

By: John

John — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:56:09 +0000

There are more and more migrant workers committing suicide or attempting suicide everyday in Kuwait.

By: John

John — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:38:51 +0000

Unfortunately, I have tried to report human trafficking and corruption in Kuwait to journalists at the Arab Times Newspaper, Kuwait Times Newspaper, even Ricky Laxa (Reporter at Al Watan Daily). I gave them pictures, phone numbers, email addresses, facebook pages, but nothing. I even let the OWWA Office at the Philippine Embassy know about this. The only thing I figure can be done is to place UN sanctions on Kuwait, but this probably will not happen.

By: N.A

N.A — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:39:46 +0000

we migrant workers comes to this country to work ,earn money 4 a living, we didnt inetend to violate rules and laws of the country. but sometimes if the abussive sponsor take place and invent all the crimes we didnot commit then u tend to commit suicide or runaway later and become a resident violators they may say, so some are weak they fell to serious illnesses like psycological disturbances due to excessive thinking of there status problems because they are afraid of the consequences or being a run away example serving jail time with out reason we are not criminals to be jailed were just victims of our sponsors. why dont punished our sponsor why us.. all i can say is if there is really a helping hand or agency that help this people i think this problem can be solve right away.or let this run away look 4 another sponsor that is good for her or him then their residences are become legalized. or create a agency that invistigate this matter bet sponsor and run away maid summon them togethere with out onesided or bias ruling then it will be solve and everybody is happy and peacefull way not putting somebody in jail with out valid cause. thanks