The Peninsula, self-proclaimed as “Qatar’s leading English daily” published a report today about domestic workers in the emirate. The article, titled “Finding housemaids not an easy job” refers to foreign maids as expensive commodities and describes them as lazy liars. …
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Disturbing Article in Qatar’s “The Peninsula” Describes Maids as Lazy Liars
March 11th, 2010
Jordan: Foreign housemaids suffer harassment and abuse
March 10th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Suicide Working conditions
Below is the translation from Arabic of an article that appeared in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur last month. Foreign housemaids suffer harassment and abuse Amman – Al-Dustur Newspaper – Fares Al-Habashneh 13 February, 2010 Foreign housemaids in Jordan are slowly but surely beginning to raise t...
Israel NGO Encourages Employers to Force their Non-Jewish Workers to Sign Loyalty Pledges to the Jewish People
March 7th, 2010
Recently an Israeli NGO distributed leaflets in at least two cities calling on Israelis to force their non-Jewish workers to sign documents that pledge loyalty to the Jewish people. Over the last month the Lobby for Jewish Values, an anti-gentile NGO, distributed leaflets in Safad and Ashdod calling...
Saudi Media Acknowledges that Sponsor Abuse Drives Maids to Suicide
March 7th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia Suicide
The Arab Times, Saudi’s leading English-language paper recently published a report about the prevalence of suicide by housemaids as a result of abuse and maltreatment. Most recently, a 30-year-old maid committed suicide in Saudi on February 26. Below is the article by Arab Times. This article ...
Modern-Day Slavery in the UAE: Unpaid Filipino Maid Beaten and Starved for Years
March 2nd, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Slavery UAE
A Filipina housemaid was starved, abused, kept locked inside and not given salaries for three years by her employers in the UAE, Khaleej Times reported last month. The woman, Baina Mokalam (27) came to work for a Egyptian family in the UAE as a maid three years ago. Baina said that whenever she aske...
400 Migrant Workers Strike in Bahrain due to Unpaid Wages
February 28th, 2010
Nearly 400 workers employed in the company in charge of building the Isa Town flyover have gone unpaid for the last three months, the Gulf Daily News reported this week. Last Wednesday (February 24), the workers who are employed by the Korean company Sungwon protested in front of the Bahraini Labour...
Lebanon: “The rights of 90% of maids are violated”
February 24th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Suicide Working conditions
Lebanese television NBN aired a 22-minute interview, on the evening of Monday 22 February 2010, with Dr. Ahmad Ayash, head of a psycho-social studies center, and Mr. John Cassabli, owner of a business which bring maids to Lebanon. The latter acknowledged the detrimental role of many businesses in th...
Maids Portrayed as Criminals in a UAE Paper
February 23rd, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Racism Suicide UAE
Migrant workers are often portrayed in regional media as criminals, unclean and dangerous, despite the fact that they are the weakest group in society and require protection and deserve gratitude for their hard work. The Khaleej Times recently published a rather skewed article about housemaids commi...
Rights Groups Issue a Statement on Suicides of Migrant Workers in Bahrain
February 21st, 2010
Below is a statement by the Bahraini Center for Human Rights and CARAM Asia about the wave of suicides by migrant workers in Bahrain. The suffering of migrant workers must be addressed before they reach the point of suicide CARAM ASIA & Bahrain Center for Human rights February- 2010 The shockin...
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