With the Arab Spring’s first post-revolutionary election tallied only days ago, it’s difficult to gauge the impact these new governments will have on migrant rights. But, we can assess the movement’s affect on foreign workers up to this point, as well as measure the inclusiveness o…
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Saudi Limits Remittances
October 27th, 2011
Saudi Arabia announced recently that it will limit the income migrant workers are permitted to send home. The Labour Minister stated the new “Salary Protection Program” will prevent the ‘exodus’ of wealth leaving the nation in the form of remittances. He did not specify the p...
Embassy Acts as Sanctuary for Absconding Citizens
October 25th, 2011
Kuwaiti authorities are receiving complaints about an unnamed African Embassy protecting citizens that have absconded from their employers. Absconding, which involves leaving an employer in some manner without their consent, is a criminal offense under the Kuwaiti sponsorship system. The system bind...
Family of a maid who died in Jordan demanding investigation
October 24th, 2011
The family of Subhani M Lurdu, a Sri Lankan maid who reportedly died on the 17th of October during her employment in Jordan, is requesting an investigation. They’re also requesting that her body is sent back to Sri Lanka. Subhani was only 27 years old, and the mother of 3 young children. Her ...
Suicide of Detained Migrant Prompts Investigation
October 23rd, 2011
General Kuwait Prisoners Suicide
The suicide of an Indonesian maid in Kuwaiti custody is drawing questions about the conditions of her imprisonment.The woman hung herself with her scarf, her severed neck indicating that she had not been checked up on for days. Current accounts of the case are conflicting; one reports that security ...
UN urges Lebanon to Protect Domestic Workers
October 20th, 2011
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on modern day slavery is urging Lebanon to address the plight of its domestic workers. Gulnara Shahinian recounted conditions of the migrants she met in Lebanon; sexual abuse, contract violations, unfair hours, and domestic servitude regularly punctuated their exper...
‘Overseas Filipino workers joining ‘occupy’ movement abroad inevitable’
October 19th, 2011
Thus, said today by a Filipino migrants’ rights group in the Middle East as the ‘occupy’ movement around the world gains support from various groups and sectors denouncing ‘corporate greed’ by big businesses and establishments who got control most of a nation’s wealth. “To say that our...
Our new video promoting migrant rights in the Middle East
October 18th, 2011
We have just released a new video in an effort to continue to spread awareness about the dire situation of migrant/expat workers throughout the Middle East. We have yet to subtitle it to English, but the message remains very clear: Please watch and share this video widely. Special thanks to Farah S...
Beheaded Bangladeshi Migrants Victims of Saudi Legal System
October 14th, 2011
General Legal cases Saudi Arabia
The dangers migrants face in foreign legal systems was touched upon briefly in our previous article spotlighting the impetus behind travel bans. The marginal legal rights migrants possess are further compromised once they commit a crime; the moment a migrant becomes a suspect, causal mistreatment th...
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