A Filipino migrants’ rights group today called on the Aquino administration and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to work hard and intensify its efforts to save a Filipino convicted of drug trafficking in China. In a statement issued on …
Posted in Death, Prison, Prisoners | Tagged China death row, Migrante-ME, Migrants rights | Leave a commentA recent U.N. report estimates that over 7,000 prisoners remain detained in Libya. A substantial percentage of these men, women, and children are sub-Saharan African migrants caught up in the volatile transition of power. Accounts of arbitrary arrest and torture …
Posted in Libya, Prison, Prisoners | Leave a commentMigrant-Rights.org have just been informed that Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights (Tamkeen stands for Empowerment) is one of five NGOs that won the prestigious French Republic Human Rights Prize this year. This prize, created in 1988, is …
Posted in Jordan, Spotlight | Tagged Linda Kalash, Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights | Leave a commentA new interview shows a much healthier Shewyga Mullah receiving treatment in Malta. CNN documented Shewyga’s condition in late August, after revolutionary fighters discovered the tortured maid in Hannibal Gaddafi’s house. Hannibal’s wife, Lebanese model Aline Skaf, poured boiling water over Shewyga’s …
Posted in General | Leave a commentThe murder of a Kuwaiti bride by her Ethiopian maid may have reverberating consequences for the nation’s migrants. The Ministry of Health intends to introduce a set of psychological evaluations that prospective foreigner workers must pass before their work visas …
Posted in Abusive employers, Kuwait | 2 CommentsLast week, CNN featured a collection of photography illuminating the ‘ghost’-like existence of migrant workers in the UAE. Photographer Philippe Chancel calls these cheap laborers “new slaves,” who underpin the Gulf’s hyper-development yet remain marginalized by society. His photographs illustrate …
Posted in General, UAE, Workers | Leave a commentAn Ethiopian maid was murdered by her employer on Tuesday. The man beat her for over a week because she allegedly refused to work, and her injuries were so severe that she suffered from internal bleeding. She collapsed after arguing …
Posted in Abusive employers, Death, Kuwait | 1 CommentAccording to Lebanon’s National News Agency, an Ethiopian worker, Janet M. K., hung herself today using a laundry rope from the ceiling of the house of her employer in Bazourieh in Tyr, South Lebanon. This suicides comes one day after …
Posted in Death, Lebanon, Suicide | Tagged Ethiopia | Leave a commentSaudi Arabia is set to behead another migrant worker unless Sri Lanka can persuade authorities to grant Rizana Nafeek amnesty. Media outlets worldwide are monitoring the story closely as part of the mounting attention Saudi’s policies have received since the …
Posted in General, Legal cases, Saudi Arabia | 1 Comment