Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2010 is out now, and strongly condemns the Gulf states for failing to protect the rights of Migrant Workers. The full report is available here.
The HRW report raises the issues of passport confiscation, abuses of domestic workers and bans on trade unions as ke…
Archive for the ‘Kuwait’ Category
New HRW Report Slams Gulf States for Migrant Abuses
January 26th, 2010
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Philippines President Arroyo Please Kuwait to Spare Life of Citizen Condemned to Death
January 25th, 2010
Ms. Jakatia Pawa, a Filipino domestic worker, was setenced on April 13, 2008 to capital punishment for murder of her employer’s 22 year old daughter. The Kuwait Court of Appeals has upheld the death verdict of the Kuwait Court of First Instance on Jakatia Pawa, the Filipino household ser...
Two Maids Attempt Suicide in Kuwait
January 18th, 2010
The Arab Times reported this week about the averted suicide attempts by two maids in Kuwait. In the first case, an Indonesian maid in her thirties threatened to jump from high at her sponsor’s house in Omariya. The firemen and paramedics managed to talk her out of jumping after an hour. In a s...
Kuwaiti Sponsor Rapes his Maid
January 15th, 2010
The Kuwaiti paper Arab Times reported this week about an Asian maid who was raped by her sponsor after asking to stop working for him. The maid reported about difficulties working for the family and requested that the sponsor return her to the recruitment agency that he hired her from. The sponsor p...
Indonesia Demands more Protection for Migrants from Kuwait
January 10th, 2010
Indonesia plans on lifting the ban on sending migrant workers to Kuwait after a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kuwaiti government that is set to guarantee more rights for the workers. The Indonesian government imposed a ban on sending workers to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Kuw...
Sri Lankan Maid in Kuwait Severely Beaten
January 7th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Kuwait Slavery
Al Watan Daily reports that a Sri Lankan maid was severely beaten, held against her will and not paid her salary for seventeen months. More alarming in the story, and adding to a pattern of female-headed abuses, it was the wife of the employer who subjected the domestic worker to repeated sexual, ...
Kuwait Times Reports about the Wave of Suicides by Maids in the Country
January 5th, 2010
Housemaids Kuwait MR Site Suicide Working conditions
The Kuwait Times is the first newspaper to report about the wave of suicide and suicide attempts in Kuwait that occurred in November. Apparently they did so after reading some of our reports here on Migrant-Rights. In the first paragraph, the paper states that we’ve reported 13 cases of suicid...
Top 5 Migrants’ Rights Stories in the Middle East for 2009
January 2nd, 2010
Bahrain Housemaids Kuwait Lebanon Legislation MR Site Sponsorship Suicide UAE Working conditions
After spending another year documenting abuses of migrant workers in the Middle East, it’s time that we look back at the most significant, influential and important stories that we’ve covered. 1. Death of Domestic Migrant Workers in Lebanon This story is significant not just because of t...
Maid Attempts Suicide in Kuwait by Drinking Detergent
January 2nd, 2010
The Arab Times reported yesterday about a Sri-Lankan maid who attempted to commit suicide by drinking a bottle of cleaning liquid. The maid was taken to the hospital from her sponsor’s house in Qurain on Thursday. As in the all stories of this kind in state-run Kuwaiti papers, the report concl...
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