A three-member delegation of the Philippine House Committee on Workers Affairs visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan during October and found egregious violations of migrant rights in all three countries.
The mission was sent following a rise in reports about cases of abuse of Filipino workers in…
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Philippine Fact-Finding Mission Calls for a Ban on Sending Maids to the Middle East
November 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Saudi Arabia Slavery UAE
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...
Kuwait: Two Asian Workers Found Dead; Maid Injured Trying to Escape Abuse
November 28th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Kuwait Suicide
Two bodies of Asian migrant workers were found in Kuwait this week, Arab Times reported recently. In the first case, a Nepalese man in his 40s was found dead in the apartment he rented in Abbassiya. His body was taken to the Forensic Department to determine the cause of death. In a second case, a 38...
Abusive Saudi Employer Keeps his Filipino Driver in Jail
November 28th, 2009
Abusive employers News Prisoners Saudi Arabia
We have received alarming news about a Filipino man who is currently jailed in Saudi Arabia after suffering months of abuse from his employer while working without pay. The man’s employer is not making any attempts to help his worker, trying to extort money from him. The man, R. M. (full name ...
Two Indian Maids Held Hostage by their Abusive Saudi Sponsor
November 22nd, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia Slavery Sponsorship
The Saudi daily Arab Times published a story today about a sponsor who is preventing his two maids from returning to India until they pay him. Upon arrival to the Kingdom, the maids (whose real names aren't given), discovered that their sponsor had made a deal with a recruitment agency to...
Israel: Employer sentenced to 8 years in prison for raping a Filipino worker
November 11th, 2009
Abusive employers Israel Legal cases Rape
An Israeli employer was sentenced to eight years in prison and a 25,000 NIS ($6,700) fine for raping and sexually harassing his Filipino worker, the Israeli news portal Walla reported earlier this week. The man, Moshe Ben Yehuda (58) from the small town of Olesh, sexually assaulted the Filipino woma...
Indonesian Maid Tortured by her Saudi Employer
November 8th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia
A Saudi man is suspected of torturing his Indonesian maid and withholding her pay, the Jakarta Globe reported today. The 28-year-old maid, Bayi, worked for a member of the Fahad bin Dakil family in al-Ahssa. According to Bayi, she was tortured daily for 13 months while working for her sponsor. When ...
Human Rights Watch Criticizes Bahrain’s Government for not Protecting Abused Workers
November 4th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Legal cases Sponsorship
Human Rights Watch criticized the Bahraini Labor Ministry today for not enforcing Bahraini law against employers who withhold wages and passports from their migrant workers. Instead of helping the workers to recover their wages, the government directs the migrant workers into an arbitration process ...
Bahraini man who murdered a maid receives a life sentence
October 26th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids Legal cases News
A Bahraini court handed a life sentence to a man who murdered his maid, Gulf News reported today. As we’ve previously wrote, the man was spotted dumping the body of Ami Tursiya Takiyat (29), an Indonesian maid who worked for him. We welcome this severe sentence that shows that the lives of mig...
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