“Corrupt and ineffective” are generally terms used to describe government oversight agencies unable to manage the difficulties facing their citizens abroad. India is making strides to reverse this conception by supporting their citizens across various phases of the migrant experience.
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India Promises New Protections for Migrants
October 11th, 2011
Meet the Migrant Workers Task Force
October 9th, 2011
The Migrant Workers Task Force (MWTF) is a volunteer driven organization that promotes migrant rights in Lebanon; compromised of ordinary Lebanese and non-Lebanese civilians, students, and migrants themselves, the Task Force powers several different programs, including language classes, fundraising ...
PH govt. to ‘extort’ P18-M yearly on ‘Affidavit of Support’ requirement
October 8th, 2011
The Philippine government under the Aquino administration is expected to earn around P18-M to 20-M from imposing a requirement, the Affidavit of Support (AoS), to all overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) dependents bound to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to a Filipino migrants’ rights group...
Nations Consider Banning Workers from Dangerous Areas
October 7th, 2011
Several nations are considering banning their citizens from working in countries with poor records of migrant treatment. East Java is seeking to gradually limit the portion of its population working abroad across the board. Indonesia recently publicized an interim list of only four nations approved ...
PH govt. performs poorly in combating illegal recruitment activities; average of 10 victims daily
October 7th, 2011
Documentation Recruitment Agencies Trafficking
As it continue to receive, on a daily basis, cases of illegal recruitment victimizing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), a Filipino migrants’ rights group today said the Philippine government, from the preceding years up to this current year (2011) now under the Aquino III administration, ‘perfor...
Interview with Ethiopian Migrant & Filmmaker Rahel Zegeye
October 2nd, 2011
Rahel Zegeye is a domestic worker in Lebanon, but that is not all she is: this is precisely the filmmaker’s message in her rising film “Beirut,” which delves into the personal lives of six fictional Ethiopian migrants. While Zegeye does not shy away from denunciating the severe mis...
Crackdown on undocumented migrants in Jordan; 28 OFWs nabbed
October 1st, 2011
Deportation Documentation Jordan Prisoners
The host government had just launched a massive crackdown on undocumented migrants last week, according to a Filipino migrants group providing assistance to distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said his group is receivin...
Apathy in Jordan: The Classic Fashion Factory Exposed
September 28th, 2011
Abusive employers Jordan Rape Working conditions
The Institute for Global Human Rights & Law’s expose of the Classic Factory in Jordan is gaining increasing attention across media platforms. Interviews with several factory workers document the daily abuse inflicted by factory management and ignored by the Jordanian government, oversigh...
GCC Should Reconsider Kafala System, say Nepali Activists
September 25th, 2011
The legal system in GCC countries does not offer sufficient protection to migrant workers, and new legistlation is needed to give them ‘special treatment’, according to Nepali migrant rights activists at a recent conference in Kathmandu. Experts at the conference called on the GCC countr...
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