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
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...
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...
Racist Cartoon: Gulf Times Publishes Complaint Letters
November 26th, 2009
Qatari Paper The Gulf Times has published a selection of complaint letters on yesterday’s Opinion page about a racist cartoon depicting an Asian maid as a ‘child killer’ in Tuesday’s edition. Here is what concerned readers and migrant rights activists had to say: Human rig...
Leading Qatari paper prints a racist anti-migrants cartoon
November 22nd, 2009
The Gulf Times, Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspapers published the following racist cartoon in today’s edition. Instead of portraying maids as the defenseless victims of abuse, which they too often are, they are shown a child-killers. This cartoon is a manifestation of the preval...
Bahrain to Transfer Thousands of Migrant Workers to Segregated Areas
November 16th, 2009
The first phase of construction of Bahrain’s first “labor city” has been nearly completed, and the government will begin relocating workers there in January 2010, Khaleej Times reported today. The city, located in the confines of the Al Hidd industrial area will be able to accommod...
Kids to learn about migrant workers through Arabic storybook series
May 7th, 2009
General Housemaids Lebanon Racism Women
A series of Arabic-language storybooks has been launched in Lebanon to educate children about migrant workers. The series, called ‘Mimi and her Magic Globe’, takes readers on a journey to the homelands of migrant workers, including Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and the Philippines. The books were ...
Visa ban for Bangladeshis
May 27th, 2008
Unfortunately, due to recent events in Bahrain, many people seem to agree with the decision to ban visas for incoming Bangladeshis. However, this action is only due to an exaggerated stereotype, a claim that Bangladeshi civilians must be “murderous” due to several Bangladeshi workers who...
The sad plight of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
March 29th, 2007
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Racism Slavery Sponsorship Women Workers Working conditions
by Yaman Salahi Sushar Rosky, born 1987, hangs from the balcony of the apartment in which she worked as a maid for only 20 days in Sidon, Lebanon. She hung herself with bits of clothe carefully tied together in 2005. No investigation was conducted into the circumstances leading up to her death. Almo...
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