Saudi Arabia’s recent efforts to reduce the cost of recruitment for Bangladeshi migrant workers is not the mark of a new leaf turned. Rather, the nation’s endeavors – which manifest in the form of threats – reflect the complete rejection of responsibility for the kingdom’s …
Archive for the ‘Recruitment Agencies’ Category
Saudi demands reduction of migrant worker recruitment cost – but not out of compassion
February 12th, 2012
Recruitment Agencies Saudi Arabia Workers
Reversing the blame in Saudi: another case of irresponsible media
January 24th, 2012
Gulf Housemaids Recruitment Agencies Saudi Arabia Spotlight Workers
Employment agencies, travel brokers, and other middlemen are far from innocent, praying on prospective migrants and employers alike. But the recent piece featured on Arab News seems to victimize employers – Saudis – alone, even suggesting that much of Saudi’s own reputation for human r...
30 Distressed Filipino workers seek repatriation
October 24th, 2011
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Oman Recruitment Agencies Trafficking Women
There are 30 plus distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), all women, in Oman temporarily seeking refuge at the Philippine Embassy’s Filipino Workers Resource Center (FWRC), according to a Filipino migrants rights group providing assistance to distressed and abused OFWs. Migrante-Middle East r...
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...
How do you build servitude?
August 22nd, 2011
Lebanon Racism Recruitment Agencies Slavery
Here, is a tough article by Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar, on the House Keepers’ Training Academy. The article is very well written because it depicts the whole mentality behind the “owners” of this business by just stating facts and statements that they said. Read the full article...
Modern-Day Slave Trade in Kuwaiti Papers
June 6th, 2011
Housemaids Kuwait Recruitment Agencies Slavery Trafficking
Below is an article that appeared in the Kuwaiti daily al-Qabas last month about the abuses domestic workers in the Kingdom suffer and the “slave trade” of domestic workers from one sponsor to another or from recruitment agencies to Kuwaitis. We present the English translation of this un...
Is Any Country in The Middle East Safe for Migrant Workers?
June 2nd, 2011
Israel Oman Recruitment Agencies Workers
This week, the Philippine government determined that out of all the countries in the Middle East, only two - Oman and Israel – qualify as “safe” for its migrants. This decision becomes all the more shocking considering the low standards set by the Philippine government in order for...
One Sri Lankan, one Bengali, found dead in Lebanon
March 18th, 2011
Death Housemaids Lebanon Recruitment Agencies Suicide
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today that the body of Sri Lankan domestic worker, Manaka Brinjani, was found in Baabdat two days ago. The death was caused by the fall from from a high rise building. The security bulletin said that she was attempting to escape from the employment office when s...
Testimonies from Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
March 7th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Recruitment Agencies Slavery Working conditions
Below are excerpts from testimonies of runaway migrant workers gathered by the staff of a great Lebanese NGO, KAFA – Enough Violence and Exploitation. These testimonies appeared in their recent newsletter and shed some light on what migrant workers in Lebanon go through. Their stories illustra...
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