Crowds gathered around the Burj al Khalifa tower earlier today to watch French ‘spiderman’ Alain Robert scale the world’s tallest building. The free-climber, notorious for climbing Petronas Towers and the Empire State building with no ropes, wore a harness on this occasion to compl…
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Burj al Khalifa: the human story behind the world’s tallest building
March 29th, 2011
Is Saudi Arabia Punishing the Philippines for Attempting to Protect its Migrant Workers?
March 29th, 2011
Saudi Arabia has informed the Philippine government that it will stop hiring domestic workers from that country. The move by Saudi Arabia follows the passing of a new law in the Philippines that requires the Philippine government to ensure that all countries Filipinos are deployed to protect migran...
Saudi Sponsor Extorts Family of his Deceased Worker
March 28th, 2011
A Saudi sponsor is preventing the release of the body of Indian worker who committed suicide seven months ago, demanding $45,000 from the family of the deceased who remains unburied. The Saudi daily Arab News reported last week about the case of a Saudi sponsor who has been withholding his consent f...
Migrant Workers Targetted in Bahrain Violence
March 28th, 2011
Southasian migrant workers have been the targets of a number of violent attacks by anti-government protestors in Bahrain in recent weeks. 40 workers have been attacked in recent weeks, and three remain in a critical condition in hospital, according to the Bahrain Migrant Workers’ Protection So...
Kuwaiti Authorities Torture Migrant Workers to Death
March 12th, 2011
Death Housemaids Kuwait Legal cases Rape
Two separate instances of Kuwaiti policemen and Ministry of Defense officials torturing migrant workers to death have surfaced in recent days. The first report from March 10th describes how three Kuwait sponsors and two policemen tortured to death an unidentified Asian man. The Kuwait sponsors capt...
UAE: Three Migrant Workers Commit Suicide in One Week
March 11th, 2011
News reports coming from the UAE indicate that within six days, two migrant workers took their own lives while another worker attempted to kill herself. In the first case, a 23-year-old Indonesian maid attempted to end her life by overdosing on pills in the home of her Emirati employers in the Ras a...
Group reiterates call for immediate repatriation of 1,000+ stranded OFWs and kids in Saudi
March 9th, 2011
Amid protests in Saudi Arabia called by the minority local political dissenters demanding the release of 15 detained Shiite leaders and reforms in their government, an alliance of Filipino migrants’ group Tuesday strongly re-iterates its call to the Aquino government to immediately repatriate the ...
Where are the Protests for Migrants’ Rights?
March 7th, 2011
Below are excerpts from a great op-ed by Steve Royston for the Bahraini Gulf Daily News. His article explains why in this age of popular uprisings, protesters are not lifting the banner of migrant workers’ rights. The article illustrates the difficulty of advancing migrants’ workers huma...
OFW dies in a Riyadh district, group calls on PH embassy to probe
February 16th, 2011
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Citing reports from its officer based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a Filipino migrant rights group today said an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) was found dead in Batha, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The OFW who was identified as ‘Cris’, is a ‘TNT’ or undocumented. Initial informati...
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