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Israel Uses Collective Punishment to Ensure Migrants’ Children Deportation

August 11th, 2010

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Recently the Israeli government decided to deport 400 of the 1,200 children of undocumented migrant workers and their family members from Israel. Previous decision of this sort were eventually not enforced, and reports about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s attempts to not carry our the decision hav…

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Lack of Empathy Leads to Racism toward African Refugees in Israel

August 6th, 2010

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Israel is the the home of approximately 26,000 Africans who have entered Israel illegally through Egypt. Roughly 80% of these migrants are recognized as asylum seekers by the State, and currently cannot be deported to their countries of origin due to dangers they face there. The asylum seekers are u...

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Middle Eastern Countries Score Poorly in US Report on Human Trafficking

June 29th, 2010

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Middle Eastern countries have fared poorly in the US State Department’s latest report on human trafficking, released last week. (M-R.org and Mideast Youth Readers may be interested to know that this is the first year that the US itself has been assessed for the report. Its scores were high bu...

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Israeli Arrested for Imprisoning Two Domestic Workers

June 12th, 2010

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Israeli police arrested a 51-year-old woman living in Jerusalem and freed two domestic workers who were imprisoned in her home this Friday. The woman is suspected of smuggling into the country the two women to nurse her father a few months ago. The women were forced to work around the clock caring f...

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Migrants’ Group Urges Israel to Stop Deportation of Philippine Children

June 5th, 2010

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Migrante Middle East has urged the Israeli government to halt plans to deport 1200 children born to undocumented migrant workers. The organization has called on the government to uphold the rights of immigrants as laid out in the UN Convention on the Protection of Migrant Workers and Members of the...

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Israel: Farmer Arrested for “Enslaving” Thai Workers

June 3rd, 2010

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The Israeli police arrested this Tuesday a farmer from southern Israel who is suspected of underpaying 12 Thai workers he employed, and forcing them to work without days off. The workers contacted Kav LaOved, an Israeli migrant rights NGO and reported that their employer is paying them below the min...

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‘Making the Best of a Bad Situation’: Israel’s Migrant Women Speak Up

May 29th, 2010

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Finally, some thoughtful and intelligent reporting on migrant women in the Middle East. JPost’s Mya Guarnieri listens to the stories of migrant women in Israel and discovers that migrant life can be both exploitative and liberating. Migrant women are subject to abuse and overwork by their emp...

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Thai Worker Dies from Palestinian Rocket Fire as Israeli Employers Neglect Workers’ Safety

March 20th, 2010

Israel News

On Thursday a 30-year-old Thai worker was killed from a Palestinian rocket that exploded in the Netiv HaAsara village in southern Israel. The rocket was launched by the Ansar al-Sunnah militant organization from the Gaza strip. Tom Mehager of the Israeli migrant rights NGO Kav LaOved explained that...

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Israeli Activists and Celebrities Urge the PM to Avoid Deporting Migrant Worker’s Children

March 10th, 2010

Israel News

A decision on the fate of the 1,200 children of migrant workers in Israel is expected soon. By the end of this month an inter-governmental committee will present its recommendations on the subject to the Minister of Interior. In an unusual move, the committee officials invited members of Israeli mig...

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