Below are excerpts from a great op-ed by Steve Royston for the Bahraini Gulf Daily News. His article explains why in this age of popular uprisings, protesters are not lifting the banner of migrant workers’ rights. The article illustrates the difficulty of advancing migrants’ workers huma…
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Testimonies from Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
March 7th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Recruitment Agencies Slavery Working conditions
Below are excerpts from testimonies of runaway migrant workers gathered by the staff of a great Lebanese NGO, KAFA – Enough Violence and Exploitation. These testimonies appeared in their recent newsletter and shed some light on what migrant workers in Lebanon go through. Their stories illustra...
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...
Filipina Maid Describes Her Torture in the Household of a Syrian Actor
March 2nd, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Slavery Syria Videos
Below is an extremely disturbing video that has recently surfaced online. In it, a Filipina maid shares the story of the torture she underwent in the household of her employer, who happens to be a famous Syrian actor, Samer Al-Masri. On top of being abused in the most severe manner, the maid was not...
IOM Pleads for US$11m to Evacuate Libya Workers
February 27th, 2011
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has appealed to the international community to give US$11 million to evacuate tens of thousands of migrant workers trapped in Libya. According to OIM Director General William Lacy Swing: “The situation of the migrants stuck inside Libya is e...
African Migrants Targeted by Libyans amid Turmoil
February 27th, 2011
Several reports coming out of Libya indicate that African migrant workers and asylum-seekers are being targeted and even murdered by anti-Qaddafi forces, suspecting them to be mercenaries hired by Qaddafi to massacre the Libyan protesters. Since the third day of the Libyan uprising, when Qaddafi...
Presumed suicide of a Filipino north of Beirut
February 2nd, 2011
Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported today the presumed suicide of Lorana Bedrioan (born in 1987), on Tuesday February 1st, by “throwing” herself from the forth floor balcony of a building in Fanar, north of Beirut. She died immediately and the police is investigating. No additional info...
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...
Philippines Busts Lebanon-Bound Migrants Disguised as Nuns
January 29th, 2011
In one of the more bizarre stories we’ve seen recently relating to migrant labourers, the Philippine government has busted a group of Lebanon-bound migrant workers disguised as nuns in a bid to circumvent laws banning them from entering the country to domestic workers (full story here). R...
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