Below is an interview we conducted with Matilde Gattoni, a photojournalist who has spent a year documenting the living and working condition of migrant construction workers in the UAE. A gallery of the amazing photos can be seen on her site.
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Archive for June, 2010
Interview with a photojournalist who helped reveal the conditions of migrants in the UAE
June 10th, 2010
UAE Workers Working conditions
Lebanon: Ethiopian falls from third floor, sustains injuries
June 8th, 2010
Al-Akhbar newspaper reported today that Ethiopian national, Koma Seboka, born in 1982, fell from the balcony of her employer on the third floor in Naccache (North of Beirut). She sustained bruises, broken bones and injuries and was transferred to hospital. Antelias police station opened an investiga...
Jobless in Jeddah: 200 OFWs stranded without pay
June 6th, 2010
200 Philippine healthcare workers have marched to the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah yesterday demanding action against their employer, who has not paid their salaries for six months. The workers are nurses and clinic staff at the Al Ansar Hospital in Jeddah, which is due to be closed. Not only hav...
Migrant workers continue to commit suicide at an alarming rate in Kuwait
June 5th, 2010
Over the month of May, 17 migrant workers have attempted or committed suicide in Kuwait according to a survey of newspaper reports from the country; two maids were injured while trying to escape their sponsor’s house. This is an escalation of a trend we’ve been monitoring for quite some ...
Migrants’ Group Urges Israel to Stop Deportation of Philippine Children
June 5th, 2010
Migrante Middle East has urged the Israeli government to halt plans to deport 1200 children born to undocumented migrant workers. The organization has called on the government to uphold the rights of immigrants as laid out in the UN Convention on the Protection of Migrant Workers and Members of the...
Israel: Farmer Arrested for “Enslaving” Thai Workers
June 3rd, 2010
Abusive employers Israel Working conditions
The Israeli police arrested this Tuesday a farmer from southern Israel who is suspected of underpaying 12 Thai workers he employed, and forcing them to work without days off. The workers contacted Kav LaOved, an Israeli migrant rights NGO and reported that their employer is paying them below the min...
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