“Voices of Migrant Workers in Jordan” refers to a series of articles we are hoping to produce and publish on interested blogging sites, online magazines, activist websites, or perhaps even websites geared toward migrant workers themselves such as pinoy-abroad.net.
The aim of the articles is thre…
Archive for the ‘Jordan’ Category
Voices of Migrant Workers in Jordan
January 29th, 2012
Jordanian Migrant Rights NGO Wins Prestigious French Republic Human Rights Prize
November 26th, 2011
Migrant-Rights.org have just been informed that Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights (Tamkeen stands for Empowerment) is one of five NGOs that won the prestigious French Republic Human Rights Prize this year. This prize, created in 1988, is awarded for individual or collective action on the...
Family of a maid who died in Jordan demanding investigation
October 24th, 2011
The family of Subhani M Lurdu, a Sri Lankan maid who reportedly died on the 17th of October during her employment in Jordan, is requesting an investigation. They’re also requesting that her body is sent back to Sri Lanka. Subhani was only 27 years old, and the mother of 3 young children. Her ...
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...
Apathy in Jordan: The Classic Fashion Factory Exposed
September 28th, 2011
Abusive employers Jordan Rape Working conditions
The Institute for Global Human Rights & Law’s expose of the Classic Factory in Jordan is gaining increasing attention across media platforms. Interviews with several factory workers document the daily abuse inflicted by factory management and ignored by the Jordanian government, oversigh...
Jordan: Bureacracy Preventing Domestic Workers from Going Home
August 11th, 2011
Even when they want to leave, go home, never come back again, migrant workers are given unnecessary and outrageous obstacles.
Sri-Lankan Maids in Kuwait and Jordan Tortured with Nails
November 15th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Kuwait Saudi Arabia
In the last couple of days two reports have come out from Amman and Kuwait about Sri-Lankan maids who were tortured using nails. A similar case we reported in August involved Ariyawathie, a Sri-Lankan maid who had over 20 nails inserted into her by her Saudi employers. In the Kuwaiti case, V. R. Let...
Al-Jazeera highlights lack of protection of Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East
October 20th, 2010
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Interviews Jordan News Saudi Arabia Videos Working conditions
This week, Al-Jazeera English filed two reports from the Philippines about Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East and the lack of protection offered to them. The first report includes interviews with families of deceased Filipino domestic workers. It includes an interview with family members of...
Two Domestic Workers Commit Suicide in Jordan
July 26th, 2010
In two separate incidents, two Sri-Lankan maids attempted suicide in As-Salt, Jordan, according to local press reports. Another domestic worker “harmed” herself in the Balqa governorate after her employers refused to let her return to her country. Very few details were reported about eit...
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