Kesang Tseten is a film maker based in Kathmandu who has worked on a number of projects documenting the lives of Nepali workers in the Gulf. He is currently working on Saving Dolma, a documentary about migrant workers in Kuwait. Kesang met with Migrant Rights editor Sophia Furber in Kathmandu to dis…
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Interview with Kesang Tseten, maker of ‘In Search of the Riyal’
April 26th, 2010
Gulf Interviews Kuwait Qatar Working conditions
Philippines Brings 651 ‘Distressed’ Workers Home From the Gulf
April 23rd, 2010
The Philippine government has flown 651 of its nationals back from the Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE, as part of an ongoing campaign to bring ‘distressed’ migrant workers back from the Gulf. President Arroyo was at Ninoy Aquino International airport today to welcome back the returne...
UN High Commissioner in Bahrain; Migrant Rights on the Agenda
April 22nd, 2010
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillai is in Bahrain today as part of her 10-day tour of the GCC countries. Bahraini human rights activists will be attending a high-level meeting with Pillai in Manama this evening, according to this article from The Gulf Daily News: There are a number ...
UN High Commisioner Highlights Gulf’s Poor Record on Migrant Rights
April 19th, 2010
Gulf News Saudi Arabia Workers
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillai spoke out against the GCC’s poor record on upholding the rights of migrant workers during a keynote speech at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology in Jeddah today. According to a press release from the UN she highlighted a number...
24/7 Campaign in Lebanon: She too is entitled to a day off!
April 19th, 2010
General Housemaids Lebanon Working conditions
In Lebanon, a coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations and independent activists launched a campaign aimed at celebrating and honoring migrant domestic workers in Lebanon on the occasion of International Workers’ Day on May 1, 2010, Saturday. “24/7” means 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, show...
Animation: Protect the human rights of migrant workers in the Middle East
April 9th, 2010
Abusive employers Gulf MR Site Slavery Videos
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 countries, many of whom have no clear policies for safeguarding the...
Lebanon: Dependency creates vulnerability, leads to exploitation (video)
April 2nd, 2010
Housemaids Lebanon Working conditions
In 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 for the end of...
Lebanon: Ethiopian Suicides Blog and Nasawiya NGO Move to Action on MDWs for Labor Day
March 30th, 2010
Ethiopian 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 employers and employment offices under dubiou...
Lebanon: Sit-In in Solidarity with Refugees Detained Arbitrarily
March 27th, 2010
CLDH (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 very serious deterioration of the situat...
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