Saudi Arabia announced recently that it will limit the income migrant workers are permitted to send home. The Labour Minister stated the new “Salary Protection Program” will prevent the ‘exodus’ of wealth leaving the nation in the form of remittances. He did not specify the p…
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Beheaded Bangladeshi Migrants Victims of Saudi Legal System
October 14th, 2011
General Legal cases Saudi Arabia
The dangers migrants face in foreign legal systems was touched upon briefly in our previous article spotlighting the impetus behind travel bans. The marginal legal rights migrants possess are further compromised once they commit a crime; the moment a migrant becomes a suspect, causal mistreatment th...
Sri Lankan Housemaids in Saudi Arabia Plead to be Returned Home
October 8th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia
Hundreds of female migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia are being held in the Olaya detention camp in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Their only crime running away from abusive former employers. In a telephone interview with one detainee, a BBC reporter was bombarded with voices from other inmates, a...
Kenyans in Saudi: Modern Day Slavery
September 12th, 2011
Saudi Arabia Trafficking Women
Two weeks ago, Asha Ali, a Kenyan woman working in Saudi Arabia, sent the following SOS message to her mother: “Mom, yesterday my boss asked me if I want to be sold or not. I fear he might kill me. If it is God’s plan that I die in Saudi Arabia, there is nothing I can do. Bye mom” The ...
Interview with the Saudi Ambassador to Nepal
August 23rd, 2011
Interviews Saudi Arabia Spotlight
Below is an interview conducted by Nepalese journalist Sanjeev Ghimire of Rajdhani Daily with the envoy of Saudi Arabia to Nepal (and Bangladesh)shortly after his meeting with Prime Minister Khanal. Ghimire interviewed the Saudi envoy in Kathmandu Dr. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Nepal Dr Abdu...
Family of Maid Doubts Saudi Suicide Finding
August 11th, 2011
Abusive employers Saudi Arabia Suicide
Ernawati, an Indonesian worker died in Saudi Arabia. She was presumed to have commited suicide. Her family dares to disagree. They urged local authorities to perform a second autopsy on her body. They believe her death might be a direct cause of abuse and beating by her employer. These kinds of situ...
Another troubling month passes in Saudi Arabia
August 6th, 2011
July was a tough month for Saudi Arabia. Here, we link to several articles which sum up the situation in the kingdom before Ramadan. Amid recruitment bans, illegal maids increase wage demands. No more domestic workers to Saudi from Philippines and Indonesia. The present alternative plan is to fill t...
Sri Lanka aims to improve rights for women migrant workers abroad
August 6th, 2011
Death Gulf Housemaids Saudi Arabia Working conditions
“More attention is being given to the problems faced by the migrants,” she says. “Training for the foreign job seekers [has] been given by the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau, which is very important.” As hundreds of thousands of women leave Sri Lanka to work in foreign countries every y...
Demand for domestic help grows in Saudi Arabia
August 5th, 2011
The huge demand for domestic staff in Ramadan has resulted in shooting up wages of illegal housemaids up to 150 per cent, according to market sources. Normally Saudi families depend heavily on the domestic staff during Ramadan. There are several agents actively engaged in the illegal trade of supply...
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