This week, Al-Jazeera English filed two reports from the Philippines about Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East and the lack of protection offered to them.
The first report includes interviews with families of deceased Filipino domestic workers. It includes an interview with family members of…
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Al-Jazeera highlights lack of protection of Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East
October 20th, 2010
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Interviews Jordan News Saudi Arabia Videos Working conditions
Our Video is up for Viral Video Awards – Help Us by Voting!
October 19th, 2010
Abusive employers Gulf Slavery Videos
Our video, Protect the human rights of workers in the Middle East, is one of the 21 videos from all over the world nominated for the 2010 Viral Video Awards. Please check out our video and vote for us.
Interview with Yotam Politser, Human Rights Activist, on Challenges and Opportunities for Nepali Migrants in Israel
September 14th, 2010
Israel Women Workers Working conditions
Migrant Rights caught up with Israeli human rights activist Yotam Politser in Kathmandu to learn more about the challenges that Nepali migrants face in Israel. Israel is an increasingly popular country among Nepali migrants seeking labour opportunities overseas, and is currently home to approximatel...
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...
Emirati paper: UAE “unfairly” targeted for migrant rights abuses
June 15th, 2010
Sponsorship UAE Working conditions
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...
Israeli Arrested for Imprisoning Two Domestic Workers
June 12th, 2010
Abusive employers Housemaids Israel Legal cases Slavery Trafficking
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...
Interview with a photojournalist who helped reveal the conditions of migrants in the UAE
June 10th, 2010
UAE Workers Working conditions
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 ...
Israel: Farmer Arrested for “Enslaving” Thai Workers
June 3rd, 2010
Abusive employers Israel Working conditions
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...
Saudi Sponsors Punish Their Workers by Declaring Them as “Runaways”
May 6th, 2010
Abusive employers Saudi Arabia Sponsorship Working conditions
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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