A Filipino migrants’ rights group in the Middle East expressed doubt in the recent bilateral accord signed by the Philippine government represented by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) with the Lebanese and Saudi governments, respectively, on providing protection to thousands of deploy…
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Filipino migrant group presses implementing rules, regulations on domestic workers pact
February 4th, 2012
Israel to deport 7,000 Sudanese migrants
February 3rd, 2012
Israel announced on Tuesday that it will deport its approximately 7,000 Sudanese migrant workers because of South Sudan’s liberation. The migrants will be offered a “package” of $1,300 and a free ticket home. They have been asked leave by March 31st, and will be forcefully repatriated ...
12 years in prison, OFW seeks govt. help to avail Royal pardon
February 1st, 2012
Bahrain General Prison Prisoners
An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) has been in jail for twelve long years in a Bahrain prison after the court sentenced him of unpremeditated murder. Now he is pleading for government assistance to avail the host countries’ yearly Royal pardon, according to Migrante-Middle East (M-ME), a migrant ri...
Lebanese Minister of Labor promises to abolish sponsorship “kafala” system
January 24th, 2012
Lebanon Legislation Sponsorship
On Monday 23 January 2012, Lebanese Minister of Labor Charbel Nahas declared unacceptable that the Lebanese continue to hire foreign labor they violate the rights, as they continue to rush to the gates of the embassies in search of work and foreign passports. He added: “I am against the confin...
More Indonesian migrants escape death penalty in Saudi
January 18th, 2012
General Legal cases Saudi Arabia Women
In what appears to be another last-minute success story from Indonesia’s migrant worker task force, two women have been granted reprieve from death row. One woman had been accused of practicing witchcraft, while the other was convicted of murdering her employer’s young child. Both women are ...
Israel passes indefinite detention bill
January 15th, 2012
Deportation General Israel Legislation Prison
Israel’s parliament passed an incredibly controversial law last week that permits the unlimited, indefinite detention of migrants. The law amends a 1954 statute pertaining to guerrilla fighters penetrating the Israeli-Egyptian border. By sactioning the same wartime punishment against alleged terro...
Three Indonesian migrants saved from death penalty
January 1st, 2012
Three Indonesian housemaids have been granted a stay of execution in Saudi Arabia. The Migrant Worker Task Force, an Indonesian agency empowered to deal with death sentences in Saudi, accompanied one released woman to Jakarta yesterday. The remaining migrants will return to Indonesia within two we...
Indonesia attempts to secure reprieve for Tuti Tursilawati
December 26th, 2011
Abusive employers Prisoners Saudi Arabia
Tuti Tursilawati, 27, is an Indonesian migrant on death row. Her story is like many others: left to wander the parameters of Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory judicial system with sporadic aid from her own government, she agonizingly awaits to hear her fate: last-minute amnesty or execution via d...
StopGAMCA.org
December 8th, 2011
The acronym GAMCA stands for GCC Approved Medical Centers Association and earns ire from many migrants and migrant hopefuls. GAMCA clinics operate by standardized guidelines set by the Gulf countries, and are the only medical facilities authorized to test and clear migrants for employment in the Gul...
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