Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Migrants’ advocacy group, Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) today questions the intention of the Philippine government plan to lift the ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Iraq after the latter through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) sent a delegation in Iraq …
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OFW group questions PH govt. intention to lift OFWs ban in Iraq
September 20th, 2011
Don’t Let Her Commit Your Crime
September 13th, 2011
Housemaids Lebanon Suicide Working conditions
Last week, Kafa announced the launching of their new, long awaitned media campaign for raising consciousness on domestic workers issues, with a clear focus on the tremendously high suicide rates. Kafa is a local NGO operating from Lebanon, a country where a 2008 HRW report stated that the average de...
Positive Changes for Migrants in Lebanon?
September 10th, 2011
Lebanon has made some changes to the way that it receives migrant workers, according to this article in the DailyStar Changes include the distribution of manuals to incoming workers on rights and responsibilities, trained staff on hand to ‘greet’ incoming workers and better rooms in theÂ...
Libya’s ‘New Racism’
September 5th, 2011
Black African migrants in Libya face an increasingly perilous situation. As we have blogged before, black African migrants have been the target of attacks by anti-Gaddafi forces on suspicion of being mercenaries for the regime since the conflict in Libya began. Recent reports suggest that the dange...
Filipinos in Syria
September 5th, 2011
Many Filipino domestic workers are in dire need for help amidst the turmoil escalating for weeks since the Syria revolution erupted in June. Activist groups have welcomed the recall of the Phillipine ambassador to Syria by order of the Department of Foreign Affairs. It has become clear that the am...
Ad Campaign on Suicides
September 2nd, 2011
A new campaign by Lebanese organisation Kafa tackles the issues of weekly “suicides” by migrant domestic workers. This is a brave campaign compared to many previous others which have been labelled as apologetic and unconsiouly racist by civil society actors while trying to tackle racism....
Wikileaks and Migrant Workers
September 1st, 2011
Wikileaks are out again with a new batch of information and data. This time, there is tons of content on the situation of migrants in the region and specifically the issue of trafficking. Check this document as a sample. This is a paragraph Ethiopian Suicides linked to. – From late 2005 to ear...
Unspeakable Cruelty: Abused Ethiopian Nanny Found at Gaddafi Compound
August 30th, 2011
A horrific story was uncovered today when an Ethiopian woman, a former “servant” of the Qaddafi family, was found in the Qaddafi compound, totally brutalized and burned. Shweyga Mullah was working for Hannibal, Qaddafi’s son, and his wife, Aline. Aline Skaf is a Lebanese actress b...
Interview with Ahmed Zidan on situation of migrant workers in the Middle East
August 28th, 2011
On the 20th of June, Ahmed Zidan, Editor-in-Chief of Mideast Youth recieved a Best of the Blogs Award for migrant-rights.org. In this inteview, Ahmed talks to Hivos about the prize, the website and the situation of migrant workers in the Middle East.
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