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30 Distressed Filipino workers seek repatriation

October 24th, 2011

Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Oman Recruitment Agencies Trafficking Women

There are 30 plus distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), all women, in Oman temporarily seeking refuge at the Philippine Embassy’s Filipino Workers Resource Center (FWRC), according to a Filipino migrants rights group providing assistance to distressed and abused OFWs.
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PH govt. performs poorly in combating illegal recruitment activities; average of 10 victims daily

October 7th, 2011

Documentation Recruitment Agencies Trafficking

As it continue to receive, on a daily basis, cases of illegal recruitment victimizing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), a Filipino migrants’ rights group today said the Philippine government, from the preceding years up to this current year (2011) now under the Aquino III administration, ‘perfor...

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Kenyans in Saudi: Modern Day Slavery

September 12th, 2011

Saudi Arabia Trafficking Women

Two weeks ago, Asha Ali, a Kenyan woman working in Saudi Arabia, sent the following SOS message to her mother: “Mom, yesterday my boss asked me if I want to be sold or not. I fear he might kill me. If it is God’s plan that I die in Saudi Arabia, there is nothing I can do. Bye mom” The ...

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Wikileaks and Migrant Workers

September 1st, 2011

Lebanon Spotlight Trafficking

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...

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Kuwaiti Government Official Rejects US Report on Human Trafficking

July 18th, 2011

Housemaids Kuwait Trafficking Working conditions

Kuwait has been rated many times as one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to combating human trafficking as seen in the US State Department annual reports, Human Rights Watch, and other international human rights organizations. On the 14th of July, Al-Qabas newspaper published statem...

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Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel unite

July 14th, 2011

General Israel Racism Refugees Slavery Trafficking

“I didn’t feel my country as my country. Every day my life was disturbed, I was suppressed. I could not live my life in such a way”. These are the words of Kidane Isaac who was caught attempting to flee Eritrea by the border police and sent to military prison in 2007. After four months, he and...

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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...

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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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Human trading rampant among recruitment agents’ counterparts, says migrant group

October 28th, 2010

Housemaids Trafficking

“If we think that human trafficking is the ‘modus operandi’ of unlicensed and illegal recruiters victimizing thousands would-be overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and even old-timer OFWs, then we are partly wrong and must be corrected.” Thus, said today by an alliance of Filipino migra...

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