May 29th, 2010
Legal cases News Saudi Arabia Workers
The family of Joselito Zapanta, a Filipino migrant worker on death row in Saudi Arabia, are trying to raise ‘blood money’ to save their son’s life, since they are not satisfied with the legal aid that the government is providing (see full story here and here)
“I have spoken wit…
May 23rd, 2010
Around 500 migrant workers, mainly from Turkey, Syria and Egypt, went on strike at a construction project recently in Mecca protesting against unpaid wages. The workers claimed that they had not been paid for two months. The Saudi government is investing heavily in developing infrastructure, apartm...
May 23rd, 2010
Migrante-Middle East, a rights group representing Overseas Filippino Workers (OFWs) has called for an investigation following reports that a Philippine national was severely beaten on death row in a jail in Riyadh. According to this article in The Enquirer: Migrante-Middle East (ME) said the famil...
May 6th, 2010
Abusive employers Saudi Arabia Sponsorship Working conditions
Below is a letter we received from the president of the Federation of Kerala Associations in Saudi Arabia (FOKASA). FOKASA is a social organization of Indians working in Saudi Arabia that regularly provides assistance to Indians deprived of their human rights. The letter brings to attention an issue...
May 5th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia Slavery
A severely abused Indian maid managed to procure a cellphone and contact the Saudi paper “Arab Times”, sharing her harrowing tale. The maid, “Amina” (not her real name) began working for a family living in Ahsa in the Saudi Eastern Province almost a year ago. Soon after the m...
April 30th, 2010
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Legislation Racism Rape Saudi Arabia Sponsorship Suicide Trafficking UAE Working conditions
A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the rights of migrant domestic workers focused heavily on the Middle East, and for a good reason: most regional governments do not include domestic workers under the protection of its labor laws, and the current regulations leave domestic workers open to e...
April 23rd, 2010
The Philippine government has flown 651 of its nationals back from the Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE, as part of an ongoing campaign to bring ‘distressed’ migrant workers back from the Gulf. President Arroyo was at Ninoy Aquino International airport today to welcome back the returne...
April 21st, 2010
Four Pakistani workers have been stranded in Saudi Arabia without pay and accommodations for years as their health begins to deteriorate, the Arab Times reported today. The workers, Muhammad Aslam, Waris Hussain, Abdul Aziz Shakir and Khaled Parvez worked at a factory of a Saudi company in Jeddah. 1...
April 19th, 2010
Gulf News Saudi Arabia Workers
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillai spoke out against the GCC’s poor record on upholding the rights of migrant workers during a keynote speech at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology in Jeddah today. According to a press release from the UN she highlighted a number...
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