On April 10th, Kuwait’s Arab Times reported about the rape and kidnapping of an unnamed Indonesian maid by a police officer. This report is an appalling example of the regional papers’ disregard to migrant and women’s rights.
Kuwaiti press in general (except for Ben Garcia, a staff…
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Kuwait’s “Arab Times” Apparently Amused by a Maid’s Rape
April 14th, 2010
Kuwait Again Promises to Abolish the Sponsorship System, Set Minimum Wage for Migrants
April 2nd, 2010
Kuwait Legislation Sponsorship
Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Dr. Mohammed Al-Afasi announced this week the government’s intention to set a minimum wage for expatriate workers. In addition, Al-Afasi said that his ministry is in the process of creating an independent labor authority, which will eliminate...
Kuwait Doesn’t Allow Migrants to Form Labor Unions
March 31st, 2010
Migrant workers in Kuwait are not allowed to form labor unions or work syndicates, while Kuwaiti employers were granted this right in the emirate’s new labor law. Much criticism has been leveled against Kuwait’s new labor law, which was passed late last year, for not going far enough and...
Every Two Days a Migrant Worker Attempts or Commits Suicide in Kuwait
March 28th, 2010
Housemaids Kuwait Sponsorship Suicide Workers
As we at Migrant-Rights.org continue to monitor the situation of migrant workers in the Middle East, the frequent reports on cases of suicide by workers in Kuwait continue to draw our attention. We have previously covered the phenomenon when during November 2009 there were 13 reported cases of suici...
New HRW Report Slams Gulf States for Migrant Abuses
January 26th, 2010
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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...
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...
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