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Photographer Exposes the Unseen Lives of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

August 21st, 2010

Abusive employers Documentation Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Working conditions

Below is an interview with Matthew Cassel, an American photographer and journalist based in Lebanon about his photography project Unseen Lives: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon (see slideshow at the bottom of this post). In the interview Matthew describes how he was able to get close to the migra…

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Emirati paper: UAE “unfairly” targeted for migrant rights abuses

June 15th, 2010

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A recent editorial in Gulf News, the UAE’s most popular English-language newspaper, lavishly praised the UAE’s treatment of migrant workers, ignoring the egregious human rights violation migrant workers are subjected to in the Emirates. The editorial highlighted the International Labor O...

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Israeli Arrested for Imprisoning Two Domestic Workers

June 12th, 2010

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Israeli police arrested a 51-year-old woman living in Jerusalem and freed two domestic workers who were imprisoned in her home this Friday. The woman is suspected of smuggling into the country the two women to nurse her father a few months ago. The women were forced to work around the clock caring f...

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Interview with a photojournalist who helped reveal the conditions of migrants in the UAE

June 10th, 2010

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Below is an interview we conducted with Matilde Gattoni, a photojournalist who has spent a year documenting the living and working condition of migrant construction workers in the UAE. A gallery of the amazing photos can be seen on her site. First, could you introduce yourself to our readers? I’m ...

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Israel: Farmer Arrested for “Enslaving” Thai Workers

June 3rd, 2010

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The Israeli police arrested this Tuesday a farmer from southern Israel who is suspected of underpaying 12 Thai workers he employed, and forcing them to work without days off. The workers contacted Kav LaOved, an Israeli migrant rights NGO and reported that their employer is paying them below the min...

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Saudi Sponsors Punish Their Workers by Declaring Them as “Runaways”

May 6th, 2010

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Below is a letter we received from the president of the Federation of Kerala Associations in Saudi Arabia (FOKASA). FOKASA is a social organization of Indians working in Saudi Arabia that regularly provides assistance to Indians deprived of their human rights. The letter brings to attention an issue...

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Modern-Day Slavery in Saudi Arabia: Abused and Unpaid Maids “Rented” for Profit

May 5th, 2010

Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia Slavery

A severely abused Indian maid managed to procure a cellphone and contact the Saudi paper “Arab Times”, sharing her harrowing tale. The maid, “Amina” (not her real name) began working for a family living in Ahsa in the Saudi Eastern Province almost a year ago. Soon after the m...

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Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: Exploited, Abused and Ignored

April 30th, 2010

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A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the rights of migrant domestic workers focused heavily on the Middle East, and for a good reason: most regional governments do not include domestic workers under the protection of its labor laws, and the current regulations leave domestic workers open to e...

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Interview with Kesang Tseten, maker of ‘In Search of the Riyal’

April 26th, 2010

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Kesang Tseten is a film maker based in Kathmandu who has worked on a number of projects documenting the lives of Nepali workers in the Gulf. He is currently working on Saving Dolma, a documentary about migrant workers in Kuwait. Kesang met with Migrant Rights editor Sophia Furber in Kathmandu to dis...

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