Lebanese news website Elnashra.com reported last Sunday evening that, according to Lebanese security sources, a Nepalese domestic worker hung herself in her employer’s house in Ashrafieh, a Christian suburb of Beirut. Her employers discovered the body hanging on the kitchen …
Posted in Death, Housemaids, Lebanon, Slavery, Suicide, Videos | Tagged Nepal | 2 CommentsSaudi Arabia has lifted the ban on domestic workers from the Philippines, which the Kingdom had imposed since since July. The ban followed the Philippines’ demands for domestic worker protections, prompted by widespread discontent voiced by Filipino citizens and NGOs. …
Posted in Housemaids, Saudi Arabia | Leave a commentOn Monday 23 January 2012, Lebanese Minister of Labor Charbel Nahas declared unacceptable that the Lebanese continue to hire foreign labor they violate the rights, as they continue to rush to the gates of the embassies in search of work …
Posted in Lebanon, Legislation, Sponsorship | Tagged charbel nahas | 2 CommentsEmployment agencies, travel brokers, and other middlemen are far from innocent, praying on prospective migrants and employers alike. But the recent piece featured on Arab News seems to victimize employers – Saudis – alone, even suggesting that much of Saudi’s …
Posted in Gulf, Housemaids, Recruitment Agencies, Saudi Arabia, Spotlight, Workers | 5 CommentsForbes.com has ranked the UAE as the least friendly country in the world for expat workers. Countries trailing closely behind include Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The ranking was framed around the HSBC’s Expat Explorer Survey, which polls expats across 100 …
Posted in UAE | Leave a commentIn what appears to be another last-minute success story from Indonesia’s migrant worker task force, two women have been granted reprieve from death row. One woman had been accused of practicing witchcraft, while the other was convicted of murdering her …
Posted in General, Legal cases, Saudi Arabia, Women | 2 CommentsIsrael’s parliament passed an incredibly controversial law last week that permits the unlimited, indefinite detention of migrants. The law amends a 1954 statute pertaining to guerrilla fighters penetrating the Israeli-Egyptian border. By sactioning the same wartime punishment against alleged terrorists …
Posted in Deportation, General, Israel, Legislation, Prison | 1 CommentA Filipino migrants’ rights group urges today the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation on the death of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who is believed to have just returned from her work but was found dead inside a suitcase …
Posted in Bahrain, Death | Tagged M-ME, Migrant rights | 2 CommentsA Filipino migrant rights group in the Middle East is not discounting the possibility that an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was reportedly killed in Syria was hit by a stray bullet while attempting to escape from her employer’s house …
Posted in Death, News, Syria | Tagged M-ME, MENA crisis, Migrant rights | Leave a comment