The New York Times ran this piece on on global migration on Monday which may be of interest to M-R.org readers, ‘Global Migration: A World Ever More on the Move’. Migration is perhaps the most ‘overlooked’ phenomenon of modern times, …
Posted in General, Workers | Leave a commentMiddle Eastern countries have fared poorly in the US State Department’s latest report on human trafficking, released last week. (M-R.org and Mideast Youth Readers may be interested to know that this is the first year that the US itself has …
Posted in Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, News, Trafficking | 1 CommentPhilippine is the 12th largest population with total of 92 million people scattered in 7107 islands in Western Pacific Ocean. The skills, commitment and hard work of its citizens are highly respected as overseas migrant workers around the world. OFW …
Posted in Interviews, Saudi Arabia, Workers | 6 CommentsIsraeli police arrested a 51-year-old woman living in Jerusalem and freed two domestic workers who were imprisoned in her home this Friday. The woman is suspected of smuggling into the country the two women to nurse her father a few …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Israel, Legal cases, Slavery, Trafficking | Leave a commentMigrants Forum Asia has called on the ILO to set specific guide lines for domestic workers. The majority of Asia’s 60 million migrant workers are women, and many of them work as housemaids and nannies. MFA believes that existing international …
Posted in Housemaids, Legislation, News, Women | 2 CommentsAl-Akhbar newspaper reported today that Ethiopian national, Koma Seboka, born in 1982, fell from the balcony of her employer on the third floor in Naccache (North of Beirut). She sustained bruises, broken bones and injuries and was transferred to hospital. …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon | Leave a commentMigrante Middle East has urged the Israeli government to halt plans to deport 1200 children born to undocumented migrant workers. The organization has called on the government to uphold the rights of immigrants as laid out in the UN Convention …
Posted in Israel, News | 2 CommentsThe Israeli police arrested this Tuesday a farmer from southern Israel who is suspected of underpaying 12 Thai workers he employed, and forcing them to work without days off. The workers contacted Kav LaOved, an Israeli migrant rights NGO and …
Posted in Abusive employers, Israel, Working conditions | 1 CommentFinally, some thoughtful and intelligent reporting on migrant women in the Middle East. JPost’s Mya Guarnieri listens to the stories of migrant women in Israel and discovers that migrant life can be both exploitative and liberating. Migrant women are subject …
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