Middle Eastern countries have fared poorly in the US State Department’s latest report on human trafficking, released last week.
(M-R.org and Mideast Youth Readers may be interested to know that this is the first year that the US itself has been assessed for the report. Its scores were high bu…
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Middle Eastern Countries Score Poorly in US Report on Human Trafficking
June 29th, 2010
Bahrain Israel Kuwait News Trafficking
Israeli Arrested for Imprisoning Two Domestic Workers
June 12th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Israel Legal cases Slavery Trafficking
Israeli police arrested a 51-year-old woman living in Jerusalem and freed two domestic workers who were imprisoned in her home this Friday. The woman is suspected of smuggling into the country the two women to nurse her father a few months ago. The women were forced to work around the clock caring f...
Nepali Women in Danger in Saudi
June 12th, 2010
Kuwait Saudi Arabia Trafficking Women
Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to investigate the trafficking of Nepali women between the two countries. Nepali women who have agreed to work in Kuwait are reportedly being sent to Saudi Arabia, where they often find themselves stranded without work or papers. Kuwaiti em...
Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: Exploited, Abused and Ignored
April 30th, 2010
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Legislation Racism Rape Saudi Arabia Sponsorship Suicide Trafficking UAE Working conditions
A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the rights of migrant domestic workers focused heavily on the Middle East, and for a good reason: most regional governments do not include domestic workers under the protection of its labor laws, and the current regulations leave domestic workers open to e...
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 ...
UAE: Couple Guilty of Forcing Three Women into Prostitution Receives Lenient Sentence
December 26th, 2009
The Gulf News reported earlier this week that the Iraqi couple that forced two women and one girl into prostitution in the UAE, was sentenced to three years in prison each. As we’ve previously mentioned, the couple held a 17-year-old girl and two Iraqi women in an apartment in Sharjah and forc...
Nepal Struggling to Prevent Trafficking of Women to the Gulf
November 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Kuwait Slavery Trafficking UAE
The UN’s IRIN News recently published a report about the difficulties Nepal’s government is having with preventing its women from traveling to the Gulf to work there in the domestic labor sector. According to Nepali activists, there is a growing problem of trafficking of women to the Gul...
Indonesian Sex Slave in Saudi Arabia Shares her Harrowing Tale
November 28th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Rape Saudi Arabia Slavery Trafficking
CNN carried a report last week about a former Indonesian sex slave in Saudi Arabia. At the age of 17 the woman was promised a job as a maid in Saudi Arabia by an Indonesian recruitment agency. Coming from a poor family, she was happy to be selected for the job out of hundreds of other women. The emp...
Bangladeshi woman is the latest victim of human trafficking in Dubai
November 26th, 2009
The Gulf News reported yesterday about a case of a Bangladeshi woman who was lured to the UAE with promises of a job as a housemaid. When she arrived, she was taken by a gang of three Asian men and a woman and informed that she’ll be working as a prostitute. Trying to escape her traffickers, t...
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