An Ethiopian domestic worker committed suicide in the offices of a recruitment agency in Lebanon on January 1st 2010, according to the National News Agency. The public prosecution charged security forces with the investigation. Originally posted here.
Posted in Lebanon, Recruitment Agencies, Suicide | Leave a commentRiyadh, Saudi Arabia -An affiliate and member organization of Migrant-Middle East in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia today slammed the Philippine embassy and the Philippine Overseas Labor office-Overseas Welfare Workers Administration for not providing assistance to a distress OFW. Eric Jocson, Chairperson …
Posted in General, Women, Working conditions | Tagged Migrant rights | Leave a commentDecember 18 is International Migrants Day Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -Today is December 18; it was the same date on the year 1990 when member nation-states of the United Nations signed on theInternational Convention for the Protection of the Rights of …
Posted in General, Workers, Working conditions | Tagged Migrant rights | Leave a commentIntroduction The Middle East has become famous for its images of luxury, associated with its large variety of tall and beautiful buildings. For a foreigner from the West, owning a home in Dubai and Bahrain is synonymous with the epitome …
Posted in Bahrain, Gulf, Sponsorship, Working conditions | Leave a commentDaughters and wives from poor Asian farming communities eager to become breadwinners for their families gamble by accepting a housemaid’s job. In desperation young girls barely in their teens falsify their age to meet the minimum age requirement. Recruitment agencies …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Rape, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Working conditions | 3 CommentsAn alliance of Filipino migrant rights group in Saudi Arabia today said the eight run away mothers who are now staying at police station following the raid on November 24 in Al Khobar are pleading for assistance to their sick …
Posted in Saudi Arabia, Workers | Leave a comment“My Sri Lankan is Lebanese”, a video produced by the Anti-Racism Movement and Ethiopian Suicides on a cellphone as part of an interactive workshop run by the producers of Shankaboot, a popular online serial drama. For more information: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/11/migrant-worker-human-rights-lebanon-video-satire.html
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Racism | 1 CommentAs-Safir newspaper reported today the “suicide” of two migrant domestic workers. In the first case, a Nepalese, Nebedki Sherba (born in 1983) two days ago at her employer’s house (A. D. born in 1944) in Naccache (North of Beirut) hanging …
Posted in Death, Housemaids, Lebanon, Suicide | Leave a commentby Salim Essaid 36 year old Kikim Komalasari’s murder has lead to an investigation by the Indonesian government to look into the details of this migrant worker who was found in a dumpster in the town of Abha, Saudi Arabia. …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, Housemaids, Recruitment Agencies, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Sponsorship, Suicide, UAE, Workers, Working conditions | Tagged GCC, housemaid, indonesia, Kafala, Middle East, Migrant rights, Migrant Workers, Suicide, UAE, Workers | 5 Comments