Dammam, Saudi Arabia – After they filed a case against their employer at the Saudi labor court last month, two OFW engineers in Dammam, Eastern region of Saudi Arabia, have sought assistance as their erring employer threatened that they could not go home and will be sent to jail instead.
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Saudi-based Filipino workers decry threat by employer for filing a case
November 1st, 2010
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Migrant group scores RP post for not acknowledging endorsed OFWs cases
October 28th, 2010
Most of the Philippine embassy and labor officials are acting like a tourists, not as public servants. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of Overseas Filipino workers, today slammed the Philippine Embassy officials in Riyadh and Consular officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabi...
Israel considers mass-deportations of African asylum seekers to Africa
October 27th, 2010
The site of Israel’s leading newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported today that Prime Minister Netanyahu is considering offering African leaders millions of dollars in exchange for their acceptance of deported African asylum seekers who have entered Israel. Such a plan was proposed back in 2008 and...
Mid-East based Filipino migrants group joins calls to fire labor official in Hong-Kong
October 27th, 2010
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia- An alliance of Overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East joins the calls to Philippine Labor department chief to fire or recall the RP labor attache in Hong Kong who allegedly verbally abused a distress OFW after the latter had sought assistance from the former but instead r...
No OFWs-receiving country in the Mid-east qualifies ‘certification’ requirement of the new Migrant workers law -Migrante
October 22nd, 2010
If the new Migrant workers law is strictly adhered and implemented there would be no single OFW-receiving country in the Middle East to be issued the required certification so that deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) would still continue, thus said today by an alliance of Filipino migrant...
Group alarmed over OFW who killed self inside plane; says his case, like many OFWs abuses, a serious concern
October 21st, 2010
It is quite alarming upon knowing that an OFW, on-board Gulf Airlines, who would supposed to meet shortly his wife and other family members, killed himself an hour before the plane landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. According to news reports, Marlon Cueva, 36, of Lubang Island in Mind...
Al-Jazeera highlights lack of protection of Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East
October 20th, 2010
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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...
Our Video is up for Viral Video Awards – Help Us by Voting!
October 19th, 2010
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Our video, Protect the human rights of workers in the Middle East, is one of the 21 videos from all over the world nominated for the 2010 Viral Video Awards. Please check out our video and vote for us.
New report debunks common myth about asylum seekers and crime in Israel
October 16th, 2010
A new report (Hebrew pdf) by the Israeli parliament’s (Knesset) research center completely debunks the common myth spread by the media and the Israeli government that African asylum seekers increase crime rates. The report, examining crime rates among the African population in Israel and the ...
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