The social and medical effects of the GCC’s controversial tuberculosis (TB) deportation laws may not be worth the supposed advantages. The UAE deports individuals with active, new, or old pulmonary TB scars. Health officials claim to only deport newcomers, and …
Posted in Deportation, Gulf, Legislation, UAE | 3 CommentsWith the Arab Spring’s first post-revolutionary election tallied only days ago, it’s difficult to gauge the impact these new governments will have on migrant rights. But, we can assess the movement’s affect on foreign workers up to this point, as …
Posted in General, MR Site | 1 CommentSaudi Arabia announced recently that it will limit the income migrant workers are permitted to send home. The Labour Minister stated the new “Salary Protection Program” will prevent the ‘exodus’ of wealth leaving the nation in the form of remittances. …
Posted in General, Saudi Arabia, Workers | 1 CommentKuwaiti authorities are receiving complaints about an unnamed African Embassy protecting citizens that have absconded from their employers. Absconding, which involves leaving an employer in some manner without their consent, is a criminal offense under the Kuwaiti sponsorship system. The …
Posted in General | Leave a commentThe family of Subhani M Lurdu, a Sri Lankan maid who reportedly died on the 17th of October during her employment in Jordan, is requesting an investigation. They’re also requesting that her body is sent back to Sri Lanka. Subhani …
Posted in Jordan | Leave a commentThere are 30 plus distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), all women, in Oman temporarily seeking refuge at the Philippine Embassy’s Filipino Workers Resource Center (FWRC), according to a Filipino migrants rights group providing assistance to distressed and abused OFWs. Migrante-Middle …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, Housemaids, Oman, Recruitment Agencies, Trafficking, Women | Tagged Migrante-Middle East, Migrants Right | Leave a commentThe suicide of an Indonesian maid in Kuwaiti custody is drawing questions about the conditions of her imprisonment.The woman hung herself with her scarf, her severed neck indicating that she had not been checked up on for days. Current accounts …
Posted in General, Kuwait, Prisoners, Suicide | Leave a commentThe UN’s Special Rapporteur on modern day slavery is urging Lebanon to address the plight of its domestic workers. Gulnara Shahinian recounted conditions of the migrants she met in Lebanon; sexual abuse, contract violations, unfair hours, and domestic servitude regularly …
Posted in Lebanon, Legislation, Workers | 2 CommentsThus, said today by a Filipino migrants’ rights group in the Middle East as the ‘occupy’ movement around the world gains support from various groups and sectors denouncing ‘corporate greed’ by big businesses and establishments who got control most of …
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