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.
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Two Domestic Workers Commit Suicide in Jordan
July 26th, 2010
Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: Exploited, Abused and Ignored
April 30th, 2010
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Legislation Racism Rape Saudi Arabia Sponsorship Suicide Trafficking UAE Working conditions
A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the rights of migrant domestic workers focused heavily on the Middle East, and for a good reason: most regional governments do not include domestic workers under the protection of its labor laws, and the current regulations leave domestic workers open to e...
Jordan: Foreign housemaids suffer harassment and abuse
March 10th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Suicide Working conditions
Below is the translation from Arabic of an article that appeared in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur last month. Foreign housemaids suffer harassment and abuse Amman – Al-Dustur Newspaper – Fares Al-Habashneh 13 February, 2010 Foreign housemaids in Jordan are slowly but surely beginning to raise t...
Jordan: Bodies of Two Asian Women Found in Dumpster
January 23rd, 2010
Jordanian police found two bodies of Asian workers in dumpster today near Amman, AFP reported. The Jordanian police spokesman Mohammad Khatib said that “police recovered the bodies of two young women of Asian appearance from a public waste bin in the Jubeiha district, north of Amman, on Friday...
Beaten Sri Lankan domestic worker countersued by employer for child abuse
January 14th, 2010
Jordan Legal cases Women Workers
The Jordan Times reported on Thursday about a Sri Lankan domestic helper in Amman who spent 12 days in prison after her employer sued her for theft and child abuse. According to reporter Hani Hazaimeh, Ishara Hemanthi was jailed soon after a beating by her employer resulted in hospitalization. She w...
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...
Op-ed in a Jordanian Daily: We Need to Appreciate Migrant Workers
December 7th, 2009
The following is a translation of an op-ed appeared in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour this week. Labor Migrants Nazih Elqusus 5 December, 2009 Labor migrants in Jordan are divided into two categories: the first being Arab laborers who come from Egypt and Syria and most of them work in the fields of ...
Philippine Fact-Finding Mission Calls for a Ban on Sending Maids to the Middle East
November 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Saudi Arabia Slavery UAE
A three-member delegation of the Philippine House Committee on Workers Affairs visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan during October and found egregious violations of migrant rights in all three countries. The mission was sent following a rise in reports about cases of abuse of Filipino workers in...
Jordan: Gravelly Ill Indonesian Maid Abandoned by Employer
September 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan
The Jordan Times recently reported about a brutal case of abuse of a 28-year-old Indonesian domestic worker in Jordan. Jordanian authorities are suspecting that the employer of the maid, who is a doctor, abandoned her near the Amman Health Directorate earlier this month. The health authorities rushe...
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