This post originally appeared on the Arabist and re-posted here with permission. You should also watch Channel Four’s recently aired documentary looking at Eritreans in Sinai who tried to sneak into Israel.
Asylum seekers and refugees in Egypt face a threat of deportation to countries where …
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The plight of Eritreans in Egypt
June 11th, 2011
Deportation Egypt Legal cases Prison Refugees
Bare contingency plan to assist Filipino workers in volatile Egypt, migrant group urges Aquino govt.
January 30th, 2011
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Raising serious concern on the volatile situation in Egypt, home to about 20,000 OFWs, an alliance of Filipino migrant group in the Middle East today urges the Aquino administration to bare its contingency plan to assist overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) working in the no...
HRW Overview of Migrant Workers Rights in the Middle East in 2009
December 20th, 2009
Egypt Housemaids Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Legislation Saudi Arabia Sponsorship Suicide UAE
Human Rights Watch (HRW) published last week a summary of the reports and research they’ve conducted over the last year on migrant rights. The end-year report highlighted the lack of protection of migrant workers in many Middle Eastern countries. In Kuwait, the report focused on the Sponsorshi...
HRW: Israel is Complicit in Egyptian Abuses of Forcibly Returned Migrants
December 15th, 2009
Human Rights Watch called on the Israeli Supreme Court to forbid the IDF to continue forcibly returning to Egypt refugees and migrants who cross the Sinai border. In the current policy, Israel doesn’t allow the migrants to seek asylum, forcing them instead to return to Egypt. In Egypt, the Afr...
Egypt Kills Another African Migrant Attempting to Cross to Israel
December 1st, 2009
Bikya Masr reported today about another case when Egypt’s border guards shot an African migrant to death as he attempted to cross the border to Israel. This is the 17th reported case of a migrant being shot to death by Egyptian soldiers since May 2009, and the second killing in just two weeks....
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