The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas tried on the 18th of July to sum up in five lines the results of the International Labor organization meeting with Kuwaiti representatives discussing the status of workers in Kuwait. The ILO representatives said that Kuwait needs to work on protecting domestic workers …
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ILO criticizes the status of domestic workers in Kuwait
July 18th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Kuwait Rape Suicide Women
Satirical Tourism Ads Highlight the Mistreatment of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
July 1st, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Working conditions
Below is an interview we conducted with Alex Shams, a coordinator with the Migrant Workers Task Force in Lebanon. The organization recently produced three excellent spoof tourism ads for Lebanon, describing the different abuses domestic workers suffer in Lebanon. M-R: Could you describe the work of ...
UAE: Two Suicides of Ethiopian Women in One Day
June 15th, 2011
The epidemic of suicides of migrant workers in the UAE continues unabated: on June 13, UAE papers reported about two suicides of Ethiopian migrant workers. At 4pm on June 11, police rushed to a house in Ras al-Khaimah where a 29-year-old Ethiopian maid attempted to end her life by overdosing on pill...
Kuwait: Minister Rejects Off-Days for Maids on Account of Tradition
June 11th, 2011
Housemaids Kuwait Legislation Sponsorship
Kuwait has always been heavily criticized for the treatment of migrant workers and the little attention media and the government give this serious issue. On the 9th of June, al-Qabas newspaper reported a statement taken by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) of the Minister of justice and social affairs Moham...
Domestic Workers Raped, Murdered and Commit Suicide in Kuwait
June 11th, 2011
Abusive employers Death Housemaids Kuwait Rape Suicide
Since the 24th of May, no updates have appeared on the case of an Ethiopian maid who has accused her sponsor of raping her. This maid, as reported by the Kuwaiti Al-Watan daily, was able to escape her sponsor’s house after he had raped her, and went to her embassy which sent her to the police ...
Migrant groups hail adoption of Domestic workers Convention
June 8th, 2011
An alliance of overseas Filipino workers rights group today hails the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention saying that it is ‘a landmark international instrument that would pave the way to protecting domestic workers’ well being, rights and welfare.” A report from Mr. Eman Villanueva, v...
Modern-Day Slave Trade in Kuwaiti Papers
June 6th, 2011
Housemaids Kuwait Recruitment Agencies Slavery Trafficking
Below is an article that appeared in the Kuwaiti daily al-Qabas last month about the abuses domestic workers in the Kingdom suffer and the “slave trade” of domestic workers from one sponsor to another or from recruitment agencies to Kuwaitis. We present the English translation of this un...
Elementary School Students in Lebanon Tackle Abuse of Domestic Workers
May 29th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Racism
Below is an interview we conducted with a group of elementary school students from Lebanon who chose to focus on human rights of domestic workers in their class project. For their research, the children interviewed maids about the abuse they suffer and sought to understand the causes of this abuse. ...
Kuwait: Asian maid forced into prostitution, others commit suicide
May 21st, 2011
Death Housemaids Kuwait Suicide Trafficking
Maids in Kuwait do not only suffer from rape and abuse that leads to suicide attempts. Recently, an Asian maid has been locked in a house in Jileeb Al-Sheiokh area and forced into prostitution for four months until she was able to escape and went to file a case in the police station as reported by A...
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