15 May 2011
Group alerted the PH consulate to secure their safety
A chapter of an alliance of Filipino migrants’ rights group providing assistance to distress overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said yesterday it received report of alleged abduction of four OFW-domes…
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Report: 4 overseas Filipino workers held ‘hostage’ by employer
May 15th, 2011
Abusive employers General Housemaids UAE Women
Kuwait: Two Maids Fail to Commit Suicide as another Gets Raped
April 15th, 2011
Reports on Asian maids getting raped and attempting suicide continue to appear on Kuwaiti newspapers. On the 7th of April, Al-Qabas Arabic daily newspaper has reported an incident of a Philippine maid that ran away from the house she works in. Her sponsor, the Kafeel, has reported her absence to the...
Burj al Khalifa: the human story behind the world’s tallest building
March 29th, 2011
Crowds gathered around the Burj al Khalifa tower earlier today to watch French ‘spiderman’ Alain Robert scale the world’s tallest building. The free-climber, notorious for climbing Petronas Towers and the Empire State building with no ropes, wore a harness on this occasion to compl...
Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Faces Protest
March 17th, 2011
Nicolai Ouroussoff writes in The New York Times: A group of more than 130 artists, including many prominent figures in the Middle Eastern art world, says it will boycott the $800 million Guggenheim museum being built in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, unless conditions for the fo...
Group reiterates call for immediate repatriation of 1,000+ stranded OFWs and kids in Saudi
March 9th, 2011
Amid protests in Saudi Arabia called by the minority local political dissenters demanding the release of 15 detained Shiite leaders and reforms in their government, an alliance of Filipino migrants’ group Tuesday strongly re-iterates its call to the Aquino government to immediately repatriate the ...
International Companies Abandon Migrant Workers in Libyan Crisis
March 2nd, 2011
Thousands of Asian migrant workers have been left to ‘fend for themselves’ in riot-hit Libya after their employers abandoned them. Many of these workers work as unskilled labourers in the construction sector. Hossain Kabir, a Bangladeshi construction worker, told AFP that he had been tra...
Migrante Prepares To Meet With Filipine Vice President To Discuss OFW Woes
January 10th, 2011
Abusive employers General Housemaids Rape Working conditions
By John Leonard Monterona, regional co-ordinator, Migrante Middle East Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – A Filipino migrant rights group based in the Middle East today said it is looking forward to meet Vice President Jejomar Binay before the end of this month to discuss OFWs woes and other concerns. Jo...
Philippine Embassy Criticised for Failure to Help Distressed OFW Senior Citizens in Saudi
December 25th, 2010
General Women Working conditions
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -An affiliate and member organization of Migrant-Middle East in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia today slammed the Philippine embassy and the Philippine Overseas Labor office-Overseas Welfare Workers Administration for not providing assistance to a distress OFW. Eric Jocson, Chairperson of ...
PH govt. failed to perform its commitment in the UN Convention for the Protection of the rights of Migrants
December 17th, 2010
General Workers Working conditions
December 18 is International Migrants Day Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -Today is December 18; it was the same date on the year 1990 when member nation-states of the United Nations signed on theInternational Convention for the Protection of the Rights of all Migrants Workers and Members of their Families. Th...
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