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…
Archive for the ‘Documentation’ Category
Photographer Exposes the Unseen Lives of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
August 21st, 2010
Abusive employers Documentation Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Working conditions
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...
Links to devastating cases
December 31st, 2007
Documentation Gulf Slavery Trafficking UAE
This is a compilation of articles concerning migrant workers in the Middle East. - Slavery of children and women in Persian gulf countries - Most citizens of Kazakhstan who fall victim to human trafficking are sent to the UAE - May 26: “A group of Iranian boys and girls will be sold in an auct...
Ratification of Human Rights
December 26th, 2007
International convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families. Download document [word file.] United Nations General Assembly – Status of ratifications [PDF]
18th December – International Migrant’s Day
December 18th, 2007
Migrant Rights in the Middle East 18th December – International Migrant’s Day Global Campaign for the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families What is the International convention on Rights of Migrant workers and members of their families? The UN and other Key Organizati...
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