Employment agencies, travel brokers, and other middlemen are far from innocent, praying on prospective migrants and employers alike. But the recent piece featured on Arab News seems to victimize employers – Saudis – alone, even suggesting that much of Saudi’s own reputation for human r…
Archive for the ‘Spotlight’ Category
Reversing the blame in Saudi: another case of irresponsible media
January 24th, 2012
Gulf Housemaids Recruitment Agencies Saudi Arabia Spotlight Workers
Jordanian Migrant Rights NGO Wins Prestigious French Republic Human Rights Prize
November 26th, 2011
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...
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...
Interview with the Saudi Ambassador to Nepal
August 23rd, 2011
Interviews Saudi Arabia Spotlight
Below is an interview conducted by Nepalese journalist Sanjeev Ghimire of Rajdhani Daily with the envoy of Saudi Arabia to Nepal (and Bangladesh)shortly after his meeting with Prime Minister Khanal. Ghimire interviewed the Saudi envoy in Kathmandu Dr. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Nepal Dr Abdu...
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