Migrant-Rights.org have just been informed that Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights (Tamkeen stands for Empowerment) is one of five NGOs that won the prestigious French Republic Human Rights Prize this year.
This prize, created in 1988, is awarded for individual or collective action on the…
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Jordanian Migrant Rights NGO Wins Prestigious French Republic Human Rights Prize
November 26th, 2011
Ex-Gaddafi maid healthier, happier in Malta
November 26th, 2011
A new interview shows a much healthier Shewyga Mullah receiving treatment in Malta. CNN documented Shewyga’s condition in late August, after revolutionary fighters discovered the tortured maid in Hannibal Gaddafi’s house. Hannibal’s wife, Lebanese model Aline Skaf, poured boiling water o...
“Workers Emirates”
November 21st, 2011
Last week, CNN featured a collection of photography illuminating the ‘ghost’-like existence of migrant workers in the UAE. Photographer Philippe Chancel calls these cheap laborers “new slaves,” who underpin the Gulf’s hyper-development yet remain marginalized by society. His photog...
Lebanon: Suicide of an Ethiopian Domestic Worker in Tyr
November 16th, 2011
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, an Ethiopian worker, Janet M. K., hung herself today using a laundry rope from the ceiling of the house of her employer in Bazourieh in Tyr, South Lebanon. This suicides comes one day after CNN produced a damning report on abuse of domestic workers ...
All Eyes on Rizana Nafeek
November 16th, 2011
General Legal cases Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is set to behead another migrant worker unless Sri Lanka can persuade authorities to grant Rizana Nafeek amnesty. Media outlets worldwide are monitoring the story closely as part of the mounting attention Saudi’s policies have received since the June execution of Ruyati Binti Sapubi. ...
Trivializing Abuse
November 12th, 2011
Headlines involving domestic workers in the Gulf often fall into one of two categories: the horrifying or the ‘quirky.’ Reactions to the former – a maid raped, a woman tortured and enslaved – are instantaneous: absolute revulsion. But condemnation of the latter is less apparent, less...
Perceptions & Rights in Lebanon
November 7th, 2011
Recent events in Lebanon illustrate the importance of social perceptions to migrant rights. An anonymous Lebanese resident is tackling the disparaging conception of road cleaners; the designer by trade has posted signs throughout Lebanese streets asking citizens to respect the Sukleen street cleane...
Another Story of TB and Discrimination
November 4th, 2011
Recently, we reported Yanita’s experiences with the Gulf’s unfair and overzealous Tuberculosis (TB) deportation policies. Mark, a migrant worker from Manila, shares his own, similar encounters with the GCC’s TB laws below: Mark was first diagnosed with minimal pulmonary TB in September...
Kaisa Ka (Unity of Women for Freedom)
November 1st, 2011
On October 24, 2011 the Philippines played host to the three-day Asia Regional Conference on “Advocacy towards the Ratification and Implementation of ILO Convention 189 on Domestic Workers”. With an estimated 100 million domestic workers worldwide, international labor standards that ensure the s...
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