The Institute for Global Human Rights & Law’s expose of the Classic Factory in Jordan is gaining increasing attention across media platforms. Interviews with several factory workers document the daily abuse inflicted by factory management and ignored by the Jordanian government, oversight …
Posted in Abusive employers, Jordan, Rape, Working conditions | Leave a commentThe legal system in GCC countries does not offer sufficient protection to migrant workers, and new legistlation is needed to give them ‘special treatment’, according to Nepali migrant rights activists at a recent conference in Kathmandu. Experts at the conference …
Posted in Gulf, News, Workers | Leave a commentRiyadh, Saudi Arabia – Migrants’ advocacy group, Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) today questions the intention of the Philippine government plan to lift the ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Iraq after the latter through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) …
Posted in Iraq, News | Tagged John Leonard, Migrant rights, Migrante-ME | Leave a commentLast week, Kafa announced the launching of their new, long awaitned media campaign for raising consciousness on domestic workers issues, with a clear focus on the tremendously high suicide rates. Kafa is a local NGO operating from Lebanon, a country …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Suicide, Working conditions | Tagged campaign | 1 CommentTwo weeks ago, Asha Ali, a Kenyan woman working in Saudi Arabia, sent the following SOS message to her mother: “Mom, yesterday my boss asked me if I want to be sold or not. I fear he might kill me. …
Posted in Saudi Arabia, Trafficking, Women | 5 CommentsLebanon has made some changes to the way that it receives migrant workers, according to this article in the DailyStar Changes include the distribution of manuals to incoming workers on rights and responsibilities, trained staff on hand to ‘greet’ incoming …
Posted in Lebanon, Sponsorship | Leave a commentBlack African migrants in Libya face an increasingly perilous situation. As we have blogged before, black African migrants have been the target of attacks by anti-Gaddafi forces on suspicion of being mercenaries for the regime since the conflict in Libya …
Posted in Libya, Racism, Refugees | 1 CommentMany Filipino domestic workers are in dire need for help amidst the turmoil escalating for weeks since the Syria revolution erupted in June. Activist groups have welcomed the recall of the Phillipine ambassador to Syria by order of the Department …
Posted in Refugees, Syria | Leave a commentA new campaign by Lebanese organisation Kafa tackles the issues of weekly “suicides” by migrant domestic workers. This is a brave campaign compared to many previous others which have been labelled as apologetic and unconsiouly racist by civil society actors …
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