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		<title>Update on Rizana Nafeek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rizana Nafeek is a Sri Lankan woman on death row in Saudi Arabia. She was convicted of murdering her employer’s four-year-old child in 2005, but has consistently maintained that the child choked to death. As with many migrant workers, she received little help from her own government during her tri...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/02/09/update-on-rizana-nafeek/</link>
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		<title>Profusion of domestic worker suicides &#8211; in just one week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first month of the new year has concluded with a number of tragic incidents involving migrant domestic workers. Suicide is often the last resort for migrants subjected to abusive conditions, often the only mechanism of change migrants feel is within their reach. Frequently, they are right; the f...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/02/06/profusion-of-domestic-worker-suicides-in-just-one-week/</link>
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		<title>Filipino migrant group presses implementing rules, regulations on domestic workers pact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Filipino migrants’ rights group in the Middle East expressed doubt in the recent bilateral accord signed by the Philippine government represented by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) with the Lebanese and Saudi governments, respectively, on providing protection to thousands of deploy...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/02/04/filipino-migrant-group-presses-implementing-rules-regulations-on-domestic-workers-pact/</link>
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		<title>Israel to deport 7,000 Sudanese migrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Israel announced on Tuesday that it will deport its approximately 7,000 Sudanese migrant workers because of South Sudan’s liberation. The migrants will be offered a &#8220;package&#8221; of $1,300 and a free ticket home. They have been asked leave by March 31st, and will be forcefully repatriated ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/02/03/israel-to-deport-7000-sudanese-migrants/</link>
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		<title>Lebanon: Presumed suicide of an Ethiopian domestic worker today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several Lebanese media sources reported today that the body of Ethiopian domestic worker Paltishi Hendor, born in 1989, was found in the home of her employer in Gazir, Keserouan. She was hanging from her neck from women&#8217;s socks. Jounieh police is investigating. No additional information was gi...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/02/02/lebanon-presumed-suicide-of-an-ethiopian-domesic-worker-today/</link>
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		<title>Uproar against Lebanon&#8217;s Murr TV (MTV) comedy show denigrating migrant domestic workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was meant to be funny. But Murr TV&#8217;s (Lebanese MTV) &#8220;Ktir Salbe&#8221; comedy show&#8217;s take on migrant domestic worker turned out to be racist, denigrating and dehumanizing towards these persons.
The show featured a 5 minute act where a couple was &#8220;negotiating&#8221; with a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/02/01/uproar-against-lebanons-murr-tv-mtv-comedy-show-denigrating-migrant-domestic-workers/</link>
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		<title>12 years in prison, OFW seeks govt. help to avail Royal pardon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) has been in jail for twelve long years in a Bahrain prison after the court sentenced him of unpremeditated murder. Now he is pleading for government assistance to avail the host countries’ yearly Royal pardon, according to Migrante-Middle East (M-ME), a migrant ri...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/02/01/12-years-in-prison-ofw-seeks-govt-help-to-avail-royal-pardon/</link>
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		<title>OFW group to Aquino govt: Go slow in peddling OFWs in MENA amid unstable situation; presses jobs creation at home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noting the peace and order in some Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are still volatile amid on-going protests, clashes between government forces and dissenters, and sporadic bombing incidents, a Filipino migrants rights group today calls on the Aquino III administration to rethink its massive and...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/02/01/ofw-group-to-aquino-govt-go-slow-in-peddling-ofws-in-mena-amid-unstable-situation-presses-jobs-creation-at-home/</link>
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		<title>Lebanon: Nepali suicide last Sunday in Ashrafieh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lebanese news website Elnashra.com reported last Sunday evening that, according to Lebanese security sources, a Nepalese domestic worker hung herself in her employer&#8217;s house in Ashrafieh, a Christian suburb of Beirut. Her employers discovered the body hanging on the kitchen balcony. The Lebane...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.migrant-rights.org/2012/01/31/lebanon-nepali-suicide-last-sunday-in-ashrafieh/</link>
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