Israeli police arrested a 51-year-old woman living in Jerusalem and freed two domestic workers who were imprisoned in her home this Friday.
The woman is suspected of smuggling into the country the two women to nurse her father a few months ago. The women were forced to work around the clock caring f…
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Israeli Arrested for Imprisoning Two Domestic Workers
June 12th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Israel Legal cases Slavery Trafficking
Rights Group Urges ILO to Bring Out Guidelines for Domestic Workers
June 12th, 2010
Housemaids Legislation News Women
Migrants Forum Asia has called on the ILO to set specific guide lines for domestic workers. The majority of Asia’s 60 million migrant workers are women, and many of them work as housemaids and nannies. MFA believes that existing international conventions do not adequately protect their right...
Nightmare Continues for Family of Saudi Death Row OFW
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...
OFW Severely Beaten on Death Row in Saudi Arabia
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...
Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: Exploited, Abused and Ignored
April 30th, 2010
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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...
Kuwaiti police stands idly by as a sponsor beats his worker
April 24th, 2010
Abusive employers Kuwait Legal cases
A Kuwaiti sponsor was seen beating his Asian worker with an iron rod near the Indian Embassy in Kuwait City as the police did nothing to stop him, the Arab Times reported this week. The worker went to the embassy to seek protection from his abusive sponsor, but did not reach his destination when his...
Kuwait Again Promises to Abolish the Sponsorship System, Set Minimum Wage for Migrants
April 2nd, 2010
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Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Dr. Mohammed Al-Afasi announced this week the government’s intention to set a minimum wage for expatriate workers. In addition, Al-Afasi said that his ministry is in the process of creating an independent labor authority, which will eliminate...
Kuwait Doesn’t Allow Migrants to Form Labor Unions
March 31st, 2010
Migrant workers in Kuwait are not allowed to form labor unions or work syndicates, while Kuwaiti employers were granted this right in the emirate’s new labor law. Much criticism has been leveled against Kuwait’s new labor law, which was passed late last year, for not going far enough and...
Lebanon: Sit-In in Solidarity with Refugees Detained Arbitrarily
March 27th, 2010
CLDH (Lebanese Center for Human Rights) held last Thursday a sit-in in solidarity with arbitrarily detained refugees in front of the underground retention center of the General Security in Adlieh (Beirut). This sit-in, which CLDH urgently called for given the very serious deterioration of the situat...
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