Human Rights Watch has called on a Saudi court to reverse a decision to drop charges against a couple who severely beat their Indonesian maid.
The judge awarded a mere $670 compensation to Nour Miyati, who was tied up by her employers and left in a cellar for a month in 2005. The 25 year old woman …
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Saudi Maid Verdict ‘Outrageous’: HRW
August 28th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Legal cases Saudi Arabia
Sri Lankan maid tortured by Saudi sponsors
August 25th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia
The Arab Times reported today about a horrific case of abuse of a Sri Lankan maid by her sponsors in Saudi Arabia. The maid, who returned to Sri Lanka and was hospitalized had 23 nails removed from her body as a testament to the severe abuse she suffered. The 50-year-old maid, Ariyawathie, reported ...
Lebanon: Increase in death of migrant domestic workers
August 25th, 2010
In the past few days, Al-Akhbar newspaper reported, based on police reports, the probable suicide, the death or the injury of several migrant domestic workers. The following is the resume: On Saturday 21 August, at 2 p.m. a Bengali maid drowned and died in the swimming pool in the villa of her emplo...
Photographer Exposes the Unseen Lives of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
August 21st, 2010
Abusive employers Documentation Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Working conditions
Below is an interview with Matthew Cassel, an American photographer and journalist based in Lebanon about his photography project Unseen Lives: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon (see slideshow at the bottom of this post). In the interview Matthew describes how he was able to get close to the migra...
Israel Uses Collective Punishment to Ensure Migrants’ Children Deportation
August 11th, 2010
Recently the Israeli government decided to deport 400 of the 1,200 children of undocumented migrant workers and their family members from Israel. Previous decision of this sort were eventually not enforced, and reports about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s attempts to not carry our the decision hav...
On the Globe & Mail’s Optimistic Report about Migrant Rights in the Gulf
August 10th, 2010
Bahrain Gulf Housemaids Kuwait Legislation Sponsorship
The Globe and Mail published a report today about migrant rights in the Gulf region. While we welcome the attention the issue of migrant workers’ rights received by such a widely-read publication, it is important to challenge the narrative of the story that attempts to show how attitudes towar...
Lebanon: Second Nepalese found “dangling from a rope” in less than 10 days
August 10th, 2010
Today, the Lebanese National News Agency reported that Nepalese migrant domestic worker, Lanta Hari (born 1990) committed suicide in the house of her employer M. Kh. after hanging herself from a rope, in Baabdat, Maten area. This comes less than 10 days after another Nepalese presumably hung herself...
Suicides among migrants in Kuwait persist at an alarming rate in June and July
August 5th, 2010
Documentation Housemaids Kuwait Suicide
Over the past two months, there have been 23 reported cases of suicide or attempted suicide by migrant workers in Kuwait, meaning that about every 2.5 days a migrant worker commits or attempts suicide in Kuwait. Migrant workers are often driven to suicide by harsh living and working conditions and a...
Two Maids Attempt Suicide in Saudi Arabia in One Week
August 2nd, 2010
Housemaids Saudi Arabia Suicide
Earlier this week, in two separate incidents, two Asian domestic workers attempted suicide in Saudi Arabia. This kind of desperate acts are often the results of abuse, poor living and working conditions and non-payment of salaries. The Kingdom does not include domestic workers under the scope of pro...
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