Al-Akhbar newspaper reported today the death, last Thursday night, of Bengali maid, Kana Aktar, after falling from the 5th floor balcony of her employer’s house (Najwa S.) in Hart Hreik (Beirut Southern Suburb). Al-Akhbar noted that “the Internal Security Forces (ISF) report concluded wi…
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Migrant rights group, OFW victims engage Philippine labor officials to a case dialog
October 16th, 2010
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -The Kapatiran sa Gitnang Silangan (KGS), a member-organization of the OFW alliance Migrante-Middle East, along with OFW victims yesterday trooped inside the Philippine labor offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to a case dialog. The case dialog was initiated by KGS-Migrante officers...
Lebanon: One more Ethiopian “suicide” today
October 15th, 2010
The National News Agency reported today the suicide of Ethiopian maid Tana Amny Bou Aziz who jumped from the balcony of her employer’s home in Shiah, a Beirut Southern suburb. The coroner who examined the body confirmed that the death was due to the full shattering of the scull and of the body...
Kuwait, Syria not safe for Overseas Filipino domestic workers, says migrant group
October 15th, 2010
Reacting on the claim of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that Kuwait and Syria are among those countries considered “safe” work destinations for OFWs, an alliance of Filipino migrant rights group express its disagreement saying the RP government is “blinded by its own labor ...
Fact-checking the Israeli government’s incitement against migrants and refugees
October 1st, 2010
Deportation Israel Racism Women Workers
The public debate raging in Israel today about migrant workers and refugees is full of misleading statistics, slogans and bombastic headlines, which makes it hard to get to the core of the debate. Are migrant workers “taking over” cities across Israel, driving the crime rate up? Are the ...
Satire and Film: Alternatives to Tackling Migrant Rights Issues
September 25th, 2010
Even though we primarily feature pieces on the state of migrant rights in the Middle East, I am going to deviate a little from that approach by posting two videos I believe are interconnected to the issue of migrants rights the world over. The first video is set in the United States; the other, Hong...
Lebanon: Ethiopian domestic worker shot dead with a hunting rifle
September 22nd, 2010
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today the death, last Monday (20 September) of an Ethiopian worker in Lebanon, who was shot dead in the face with a rifle, in Zogharta. Her employer, Saad ‘A., was arrested and claimed that he had asked her to carry his hunting rifle into the house after a...
Assistance request: Kenyan family seeking to find the body of dead relative in Lebanon
September 15th, 2010
On September 1, 2010, Ethiopian Suicides blog posted that a Kenyan migrant worker was found dead after falling from the sixth floor while trying to escape her employer’s house. The Kenyan migrant was not named. On September 8, a comment was published under the post which said “One of our...
Interview with Yotam Politser, Human Rights Activist, on Challenges and Opportunities for Nepali Migrants in Israel
September 14th, 2010
Israel Women Workers Working conditions
Migrant Rights caught up with Israeli human rights activist Yotam Politser in Kathmandu to learn more about the challenges that Nepali migrants face in Israel. Israel is an increasingly popular country among Nepali migrants seeking labour opportunities overseas, and is currently home to approximatel...
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