Next Sunday (February 28th), a protest will be held in front of the General Security Retention Center in Adlieh, Beirut to demand the closing down of the center. Among others, the retention center holds refugees and migrant workers in an illegal manner in inhumane conditions.
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Come Protest the Illegal Detention of Migrants and Refugees in Beirut
February 25th, 2010
Lebanon: “The rights of 90% of maids are violated”
February 24th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Suicide Working conditions
Lebanese television NBN aired a 22-minute interview, on the evening of Monday 22 February 2010, with Dr. Ahmad Ayash, head of a psycho-social studies center, and Mr. John Cassabli, owner of a business which bring maids to Lebanon. The latter acknowledged the detrimental role of many businesses in th...
Lebanon: “Falling” Ethiopian dies in Shoueifat
February 17th, 2010
Al-Akhbar newspaper reported today the “fall” of Ethiopian national Ambet Spuka, born in 1987, from the 4th floor of her employer’s house, Hanan S, in Shoueifat, South of Beirut. Ambet died before arriving to hospital. In addition, we note that no follow up coverage whatsoever was...
The Gulf Daily News Publishes our Ad!
February 16th, 2010
We are pleased to share with you the news that our ad for Migrant-Rights.org was featured in today’s Gulf Daily News. This is the most circulated English paper in Bahrain and widely read in several other Gulf countries. We would like to express our deep gratitude to the Gulf Daily News for pub...
Nepali Men Enslaved in Afghanistan
February 15th, 2010
Afghanistan Slavery Trafficking
Nepali men are lured into Afghanistan with the promise of high-paying jobs as security guards, only to find horrible working and living conditions as they try to repay the agents who brought them into the country. The men arrive in Afghanistan where the promised jobs turn out to be a fraud and they ...
Lebanese Ministry of Labor to create a complaints office for foreign workers
February 4th, 2010
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar newspaper reported today the following. Following meetings between Lebanese minister of Labor and ambassadors and consuls and chargés d’affaires of several countries, a committee will be formed to address the problems of foreign workers in Lebanon, and of migrant ...
Abused Migrant Women in Lebanon Fight Back
January 29th, 2010
Housemaids Lebanon Legal cases Women
Migrant Rights has extensively covered the abuses of female domestic workers in Lebanon. Now, some of these women are summoning the courage to fight back against their abusers by bringing legal cases against them. This article in AFP tells the story of 22 year old Nanda, a Sri Lankan woman who is on...
Abused and Injured Filipino Maid Trapped in Lebanon
January 27th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Rape
The following ordeal of an abused Filipino worker is all too common in Lebanon. As we and others have documented, suicides by maids in Lebanon is an unfortunate result of this sort of abuse and feeling of helplessness. Gina (not her real name) is a 21-year-old Filipina who was brought to work in Leb...
New HRW Report Slams Gulf States for Migrant Abuses
January 26th, 2010
Bahrain Documentation General Gulf Kuwait News Saudi Arabia UAE
Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2010 is out now, and strongly condemns the Gulf states for failing to protect the rights of Migrant Workers. The full report is available here. The HRW report raises the issues of passport confiscation, abuses of domestic workers and bans on trade unions as ke...
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