We have created this PSA animation to note that for far too long, migrant workers have been an invisible majority in the Middle East. They are rarely discussed in the media and receive little protection from the governments of host …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, MR Site, Slavery, Videos | Leave a commentIn November 2009, one of Future TV’s Tawasul [Communicating] episodes was on the situation of women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. In that episode (published below, partly in English), International Labor Organization (ILO) senior technical specialist, Ms. Simel Esim calls …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Working conditions | 2 CommentsEthiopian Suicides Blog and Nasawiya are concocting several actions and events to celebrate Labor day 2010 and to highlight the plight of more than 200,000 laborers in Lebanon: migrant domestic workers. Maids are falling from the windows and balconies of …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon | 2 CommentsCLDH (Lebanese Center for Human Rights) held last Thursday a sit-in in solidarity with arbitrarily detained refugees in front of the underground retention center of the General Security in Adlieh (Beirut). This sit-in, which CLDH urgently called for given the …
Posted in Lebanon, Prison, Videos | Leave a commentThe Lebanese Center for Human Rights has called for a solidarity sit-in with refugees arbitrarily detained by the Lebanese General Security, this Thursday March 25th at 12:00 p.m. at the Adlieh roundabout, in front of the General Security retention center …
Posted in Lebanon, Prison | Leave a commentOn Thursday a 30-year-old Thai worker was killed from a Palestinian rocket that exploded in the Netiv HaAsara village in southern Israel. The rocket was launched by the Ansar al-Sunnah militant organization from the Gaza strip. Tom Mehager of the …
Posted in Israel, News | Leave a commentThe Lebanese National News Agency reported today that, in Jal El Dib (Christian suburb of Beirut), Sri Lankan maid, Ambagla Mudian Silage (born 1980) jumped from the window of Al Rabih employment office located at the fourth floor of Hafiz …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Suicide | Leave a commentHimal Southasian, a regional journal, has carried a story on suicides of migrant women in its online edition, written by Sophia, our Nepal-based editor. You can read the full story here, and also see some clips from Kesang Tseten’s work-in-progress …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Lebanon, Suicide, Videos, Women | Leave a commentA decision on the fate of the 1,200 children of migrant workers in Israel is expected soon. By the end of this month an inter-governmental committee will present its recommendations on the subject to the Minister of Interior. In an …
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