As it continue to receive, on a daily basis, cases of illegal recruitment victimizing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), a Filipino migrants’ rights group today said the Philippine government, from the preceding years up to this current year (2011) now under the Aquino III administration, ‘perfor…
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PH govt. performs poorly in combating illegal recruitment activities; average of 10 victims daily
October 7th, 2011
Documentation Recruitment Agencies Trafficking
Crackdown on undocumented migrants in Jordan; 28 OFWs nabbed
October 1st, 2011
Deportation Documentation Jordan Prisoners
The host government had just launched a massive crackdown on undocumented migrants last week, according to a Filipino migrants group providing assistance to distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said his group is receivin...
Saudi authorities intensify crackdown, 32 undocumented Filipino workers nabbed among other nationalities
November 24th, 2010
Documentation General Saudi Arabia
(Updated) Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia – As the Saudi government intensifies its crackdown campaign against overstaying and undocumented migrant workers, an alliance of Filipino migrants right group in the Middle East today said there are already 32 undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), 26...
Photographer Exposes the Unseen Lives of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
August 21st, 2010
Abusive employers Documentation Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Working conditions
Below is an interview with Matthew Cassel, an American photographer and journalist based in Lebanon about his photography project Unseen Lives: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon (see slideshow at the bottom of this post). In the interview Matthew describes how he was able to get close to the migra...
Suicides among migrants in Kuwait persist at an alarming rate in June and July
August 5th, 2010
Documentation Housemaids Kuwait Suicide
Over the past two months, there have been 23 reported cases of suicide or attempted suicide by migrant workers in Kuwait, meaning that about every 2.5 days a migrant worker commits or attempts suicide in Kuwait. Migrant workers are often driven to suicide by harsh living and working conditions and a...
New HRW Report Slams Gulf States for Migrant Abuses
January 26th, 2010
Bahrain Documentation General Gulf Kuwait News Saudi Arabia UAE
Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2010 is out now, and strongly condemns the Gulf states for failing to protect the rights of Migrant Workers. The full report is available here. The HRW report raises the issues of passport confiscation, abuses of domestic workers and bans on trade unions as ke...
CNN reports about wave of suicides of migrants in Lebanon
December 3rd, 2009
Documentation Lebanon Suicide Working conditions
Olivia Sterns of CNN reported Wednesday on the suicides and deaths of 10 migrant domestic workers in Lebanon between October-November, saying the deaths show the government is “doing too little to protect migrant domestic workers from severe abuse.” “In August, the Philippines Emba...
Saudi Arabia: Hundreds of migrant workers live under a bridge hoping to get deported
November 6th, 2009
AFP reported today about over 1,000 migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are living under the King Fahd Road bridge in Jeddah, hoping to get deported. Some of those workers fled their abusive sponsors, were abandoned by them, gone unpaid, or they are illegal workers. They all lack the necessary documenta...
Op-ed in the Gulf Daily News: Lock up rogue sponsors – not their victims!
October 24th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Documentation Sponsorship
The following great op-ed piece appeared in the Gulf Daily News on October 23, 2009: Lock up rogue sponsors – not their victims! By Les Horton Yet again we see a report in the GDN of two allegedly abused workers trapped in Bahrain because their sponsors refuse to hand over their passports. The...
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