This week, two terrible stories have surfaced in the UAE, once again demonstrating the injustices migrant workers suffer at the hands of those who are in charge of upholding the law. In the first case, an Ethiopian maid who was …
Posted in Legal cases, UAE | 2 Comments28 April 2011 A Filipino migrant rights group in Saudi Arabia, Migrante-Saudi Arabia, today urges all overstaying overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to avail the Saudi government amnesty for all overstaying non-nationals in the oil-rich Kingdom. Mario Ben, chairperson of Migrante …
Posted in Deportation, Saudi Arabia | Tagged Migrants rights | Leave a commentThe sad Kuwaiti film keeps repeating itself with maids trying to commit suicide or run away from the houses where they get mistreated, humiliated, abused, or harassed. On the 22th of April, Al-Watan Arabic daily newspaper reported that a Philippine …
Posted in Death, Housemaids, Kuwait, Suicide | Leave a commentApril 24, 2011 Migrant rights group urges PH govt. to investigate, seeks justice An officer of a Filipino migrants’ rights group in the Middle East, said he had received information from fellow overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Lebanon about a …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Suicide | Tagged Migrants rights | 1 CommentThe Lebanese National News Agency reported today the death by hanging of Filipino domestic worker Maritis Penno on the balcony of her employer’s house in Hasbaya, South Lebanon. Internal Security Forces, criminal investigators, and a doctor, Ahmad Daher, examined the …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Suicide | 2 CommentsIn a landmark ruling, the Israeli High Court of Justice declared this week that the Israeli government’s “pregnant worker regulation” is “unconstitutional”, “disproportional and therefore unreasonable” and “must be abolished”. The regulation entails deporting female migrant workers once they have …
Posted in Israel, Women | Leave a commentReports on Asian maids getting raped and attempting suicide continue to appear on Kuwaiti newspapers. On the 7th of April, Al-Qabas Arabic daily newspaper has reported an incident of a Philippine maid that ran away from the house she works …
Posted in General, Kuwait, Rape, Suicide | 4 CommentsPress Release 15 April 2011 “A government that relinquishes its primary responsibility of protecting its own working people abroad is an irresponsible government,” said John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator. Migrante’s Monterona is reacting to the PH embassy’s …
Posted in Bahrain, Working conditions | 1 CommentAnti-Slavery has just released this short film on Nepali labourers in the UAE, as part of a campaign against bonded labour in the Gulf States. We commend Anti Slavery and ITUC (the video’s funding partner) for making such a clear …
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