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 …
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Lebanon: Presumed suicide of an Ethiopian domestic worker today
February 2nd, 2012
Death Housemaids Lebanon Suicide
Several Lebanese media sources reported today that the body of Ethiopian domestic worker Paltishi Hendor, born in 1989, was found in the home of her employer in Gazir, Keserouan. She was hanging from her neck from women’s socks. Jounieh police is investigating. No additional information was gi...
Uproar against Lebanon’s Murr TV (MTV) comedy show denigrating migrant domestic workers
February 1st, 2012
It was meant to be funny. But Murr TV’s (Lebanese MTV) “Ktir Salbe” comedy show’s take on migrant domestic worker turned out to be racist, denigrating and dehumanizing towards these persons. The show featured a 5 minute act where a couple was “negotiating” with a ...
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...
OFW group to Aquino govt: Go slow in peddling OFWs in MENA amid unstable situation; presses jobs creation at home
February 1st, 2012
Noting the peace and order in some Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are still volatile amid on-going protests, clashes between government forces and dissenters, and sporadic bombing incidents, a Filipino migrants rights group today calls on the Aquino III administration to rethink its massive and...
Lebanon: Nepali suicide last Sunday in Ashrafieh
January 31st, 2012
Death Housemaids Lebanon Slavery Suicide Videos
Lebanese news website Elnashra.com reported last Sunday evening that, according to Lebanese security sources, a Nepalese domestic worker hung herself in her employer’s house in Ashrafieh, a Christian suburb of Beirut. Her employers discovered the body hanging on the kitchen balcony. The Lebane...
Voices of Migrant Workers in Jordan
January 29th, 2012
“Voices of Migrant Workers in Jordan” refers to a series of articles we are hoping to produce and publish on interested blogging sites, online magazines, activist websites, or perhaps even websites geared toward migrant workers themselves such as pinoy-abroad.net. The aim of the articles is thre...
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 ...
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