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…
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Jordan: Foreign housemaids suffer harassment and abuse
March 10th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Suicide Working conditions
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...
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...
The Invisible Majority – Female Migrant Workers
February 3rd, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Qatar Rape Suicide
by Khara J Jabola-Carolus for Migrant-Rights.org One of the last (two) countries where divorce is illegal and where the ruling Catholic elite maintains a staunch anti-reproductive rights stance, the island nation of the Philippines boasts a staggering population of 90 million people and (exponential...
Abused and Injured Filipino Maid Trapped in Lebanon
January 27th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Rape
The following ordeal of an abused Filipino worker is all too common in Lebanon. As we and others have documented, suicides by maids in Lebanon is an unfortunate result of this sort of abuse and feeling of helplessness. Gina (not her real name) is a 21-year-old Filipino who was brought to work in Leb...
Thousands of Indonesians Go Without Pay in Mid East
January 24th, 2010
Thousands of Indonesian workers in the Middle East have stopped working because they have not received their salaries, according to this article from Malaysia’s national news bureau. Indonesia recently ran a programme to repatriate over 2000 ‘problem’ migrant workers from Gulf cou...
UAE: Employer Blackmails his Former Indian Worker
January 23rd, 2010
Despite the fact that withholding of passports and blackmail are illegal in the UAE, it seems that there is a second set of rules when it comes to migrant workers. An Indian worker and his family are suffering greatly because the UAE doesn’t bother enforcing its own laws. Pravin (not his real ...
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