The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has appealed to the international community to give US$11 million to evacuate tens of thousands of migrant workers trapped in Libya. According to OIM Director General William Lacy Swing: “The situation of the migrants …
Posted in Libya | Leave a commentSeveral reports coming out of Libya indicate that African migrant workers and asylum-seekers are being targeted and even murdered by anti-Qaddafi forces, suspecting them to be mercenaries hired by Qaddafi to massacre the Libyan protesters. Since the third day of …
Posted in Death, Libya, Racism | 8 CommentsRiyadh, Saudi Arabia: Citing reports from its officer based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a Filipino migrant rights group today said an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) was found dead in Batha, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The OFW who was identified as ‘Cris’, …
Posted in Saudi Arabia | Leave a commentLebanese newspaper As-Safir reported today the presumed suicide of Lorana Bedrioan (born in 1987), on Tuesday February 1st, by “throwing” herself from the forth floor balcony of a building in Fanar, north of Beirut. She died immediately and the police …
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