The UN’s IRIN News recently published a report about the difficulties Nepal’s government is having with preventing its women from traveling to the Gulf to work there in the domestic labor sector. According to Nepali activists, there is a growing problem of trafficking of women to the Gul…
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Nepal Struggling to Prevent Trafficking of Women to the Gulf
November 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Kuwait Slavery Trafficking UAE
Philippine Fact-Finding Mission Calls for a Ban on Sending Maids to the Middle East
November 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Saudi Arabia Slavery UAE
A three-member delegation of the Philippine House Committee on Workers Affairs visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan during October and found egregious violations of migrant rights in all three countries. The mission was sent following a rise in reports about cases of abuse of Filipino workers in...
Bangladeshi woman is the latest victim of human trafficking in Dubai
November 26th, 2009
The Gulf News reported yesterday about a case of a Bangladeshi woman who was lured to the UAE with promises of a job as a housemaid. When she arrived, she was taken by a gang of three Asian men and a woman and informed that she’ll be working as a prostitute. Trying to escape her traffickers, t...
Dubai Labour Camps to get Sewage System
November 23rd, 2009
Last week The National reported that labour camps in Dubai were to get a modern sewage system, ending years of relying on septic tanks.The very fact that this story is considered headline-worthy bears testimony to the chronically low standard of accommodation that migrant labourers have to put up wi...
Caution in Abu Dhabi’s New Cities for Workers
November 12th, 2009
Abu Dhabi is planning to build three new cities to shelter foreign low-income laborers and workers of the construction industry. The plan is to build enough houses to accommodate 400,000 people and are geared at single and double room occupancy. According to Arabian Business: The cities have bee...
The “hidden victims” of recession in Dubai: migrant workers
November 7th, 2009
The Financial Times published a report earlier this week about the fate of illegal migrant workers in Dubai since the financial crisis started in late 2008. The story described the living conditions of these workers, who stay in overflowing and cockroach-ridden rooms, trying to save as much money as...
UAE: Two Men Conspire to Sell a Pregnant Maid into Prostitution
October 27th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases News Trafficking UAE
Gulf News reports that a Bangladeshi laundryman plead guilty yesterday in a Dubai court to helping his friend, A.N., sell a 24-year-old Bangladeshi housemaid to a pimp. A.N. is also facing charges for attempted human trafficking, but was not present at the court. The maid was carrying A.N.’s b...
UAE: Two Bangladeshi Men Charged with Kidnapping and Raping Filipino Maids
October 26th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases Rape Trafficking UAE
Two Bangladeshi men went on trial in Dubai yesterday for kidnapping two Filipino maids, gang-raping one of them and trying to force them into prostitution, Khaleej Times reported today. The housemaids were walking around Abu Dhabi when three Bangladeshi men pulled up next to them in a car and forced...
Three Emiratis Arrested for Raping and Murdering Housemaids
October 20th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases News Rape UAE
Three young Emiratis were arrested by police in Fujairah for allegedly gang-raping two housemaids and murdering one of them, Khaleej Times reported today. One of the maids allowed her 15-year-old employer to invite his friends, aged 19 and 23, to have a night with her and another maid, a Sri Lankan ...
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