Hundreds of female migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia are being held in the Olaya detention camp in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Their only crime running away from abusive former employers.
In a telephone interview with one detainee, a BBC reporter was bombarded with voices from other inmates, a…
Archive for the ‘Workers’ Category
Sri Lankan Housemaids in Saudi Arabia Plead to be Returned Home
October 8th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia
Nations Consider Banning Workers from Dangerous Areas
October 7th, 2011
Several nations are considering banning their citizens from working in countries with poor records of migrant treatment. East Java is seeking to gradually limit the portion of its population working abroad across the board. Indonesia recently publicized an interim list of only four nations approved ...
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...
Kin suspects foul play in death of Qatar OFW
October 5th, 2011
The family of an overseas Filipino worker who was found dead at the top of her rented apartment in Doha, Qatar on September 4, 2011 is suspecting that there was foul play involved based on the initial observation on her remains, according to a Filipino migrants rights group Migrante-Middle East. Mig...
Apathy in Jordan: The Classic Fashion Factory Exposed
September 28th, 2011
Abusive employers Jordan Rape Working conditions
The Institute for Global Human Rights & Law’s expose of the Classic Factory in Jordan is gaining increasing attention across media platforms. Interviews with several factory workers document the daily abuse inflicted by factory management and ignored by the Jordanian government, oversigh...
GCC Should Reconsider Kafala System, say Nepali Activists
September 25th, 2011
The legal system in GCC countries does not offer sufficient protection to migrant workers, and new legistlation is needed to give them ‘special treatment’, according to Nepali migrant rights activists at a recent conference in Kathmandu. Experts at the conference called on the GCC countr...
Don’t Let Her Commit Your Crime
September 13th, 2011
Housemaids Lebanon Suicide Working conditions
Last week, Kafa announced the launching of their new, long awaitned media campaign for raising consciousness on domestic workers issues, with a clear focus on the tremendously high suicide rates. Kafa is a local NGO operating from Lebanon, a country where a 2008 HRW report stated that the average de...
Libya’s ‘New Racism’
September 5th, 2011
Black African migrants in Libya face an increasingly perilous situation. As we have blogged before, black African migrants have been the target of attacks by anti-Gaddafi forces on suspicion of being mercenaries for the regime since the conflict in Libya began. Recent reports suggest that the dange...
Ad Campaign on Suicides
September 2nd, 2011
A new campaign by Lebanese organisation Kafa tackles the issues of weekly “suicides” by migrant domestic workers. This is a brave campaign compared to many previous others which have been labelled as apologetic and unconsiouly racist by civil society actors while trying to tackle racism....
Loading... 