Even though we primarily feature pieces on the state of migrant rights in the Middle East, I am going to deviate a little from that approach by posting two videos I believe are interconnected to the issue of migrants rights the world over. The first video is set in the United States; the other, Hong…
Archive for September, 2010
Satire and Film: Alternatives to Tackling Migrant Rights Issues
September 25th, 2010
Nepali workers deported from Qatar for daring to strike
September 23rd, 2010
About 90 laborers working for a construction company were arrested by Qatari police and deported for striking against a company that violated an agreement with them, Nepal News reported today. According to that report, the deported workers boycotted work after their company, Albadar, refused to incr...
The Sponsorship System and Domestic Labor in Saudi Arabia
September 22nd, 2010
Gulf Housemaids Racism Saudi Arabia Sponsorship Trafficking
Kafala Politics and Domestic Labor in Saudi Arabia by R. B. As we prepare to land at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, I grudgingly wear my abaya and wrap the headscarf around my neck. A few Saudi men in jeans and t-shirts rush to the bathrooms and change into their long, white thobes. W...
Lebanon: Ethiopian domestic worker shot dead with a hunting rifle
September 22nd, 2010
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today the death, last Monday (20 September) of an Ethiopian worker in Lebanon, who was shot dead in the face with a rifle, in Zogharta. Her employer, Saad ‘A., was arrested and claimed that he had asked her to carry his hunting rifle into the house after a...
Filipino who dumped her baby claims she was raped by Qatari employer
September 19th, 2010
This week, reports around the world provided few details about a peculiar and sensationalist story about a newborn baby being dumped in the trash of a Gulf Air flight coming from Bahrain to the Philippines. The initial reports mentioned that the baby who was rescued by Gulf Air cleaners as he was tu...
Saudi Sponsors Suspected of Brutally Murdering Two Asian Maids
September 16th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Legal cases Saudi Arabia
Last week, two murder cases of Asian domestic workers were reported in Saudi Arabia. In the first case, a Saudi employer confessed in a Medina court to murdering her Indonesian maid, after medical reports showed that she was beaten to death. In the second case, a Filipino maid was brutally murdered ...
Assistance request: Kenyan family seeking to find the body of dead relative in Lebanon
September 15th, 2010
On September 1, 2010, Ethiopian Suicides blog posted that a Kenyan migrant worker was found dead after falling from the sixth floor while trying to escape her employer’s house. The Kenyan migrant was not named. On September 8, a comment was published under the post which said “One of our...
Interview with Yotam Politser, Human Rights Activist, on Challenges and Opportunities for Nepali Migrants in Israel
September 14th, 2010
Israel Women Workers Working conditions
Migrant Rights caught up with Israeli human rights activist Yotam Politser in Kathmandu to learn more about the challenges that Nepali migrants face in Israel. Israel is an increasingly popular country among Nepali migrants seeking labour opportunities overseas, and is currently home to approximatel...
Gulf Migration Takes a Shocking Toll on Nepali Women
September 13th, 2010
Gulf countries are rapidly turning into a hub of human trafficking, according to this article here in the Himalayan Times (Nepal). Women are at increasingly high risk of trafficking and exploitation in the region, and often return to Nepal with serious physical and psychological problems: According...
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