http://www.migrant-rights.org Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:02:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Saudi English daily Arab News published a report today about the apparent growing trend of maids who attack their employers as a response to mistreatment. The report, titled "Maids turn up the heat on sponsors" portrays the maids as the abusers, while barely mentioning the abuse maids suffer all ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/14/saudis-arab-times-portrays-maids-as-abusive-sneaky-witches/ 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. The egregious violations of the human rights of those maids ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/11/disturbing-article-in-qatars-the-peninsula-describes-maids-as-lazy-liars/ A decision on the fate of the 1,200 children of migrant workers in Israel is expected soon. By the end of this month an inter-governmental committee will present its recommendations on the subject to the Minister of Interior. In an unusual move, the committee officials invited members of Israeli migrant ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/10/israeli-activists-and-celebrities-urge-the-pm-to-avoid-deporting-migrant-workers-children/ Below is the translation from Arabic of an article that appeared in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur last month. Foreign housemaids suffer harassment and abuse Amman – Al-Dustur Newspaper – Fares Al-Habashneh 13 February, 2010 Foreign housemaids in Jordan are slowly but surely beginning to raise their voices to concerned authorities to reveal what ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/10/jordan-foreign-housemaids-suffer-harassment-and-abuse/ 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 for employers to ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/07/israel-ngo-encourages-employers-to-force-their-non-jewish-workers-to-sign-loyalty-pledges-to-the-jewish-people/ The Arab Times, Saudi's leading English-language paper recently published a report about the prevalence of suicide by housemaids as a result of abuse and maltreatment. Most recently, a 30-year-old maid committed suicide in Saudi on February 26. Below is the article by Arab Times. This article is important because too often ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/07/saudi-media-acknowledges-that-sponsor-abuse-drives-maids-to-suicide/ A Filipina housemaid was starved, abused, kept locked inside and not given salaries for three years by her employers in the UAE, Khaleej Times reported last month. The woman, Baina Mokalam (27) came to work for a Egyptian family in the UAE as a maid three years ago. Baina said that ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/02/modern-day-slavery-in-the-uae-unpaid-filipino-maid-beaten-and-starved-for-years/ This post was contributed by Kashfia Rahman, a Bangladeshi activist: Saudi Arabia and other parts of the world have neglected and mistreated migrant workers without being given the basic human rights. Around 90,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers live and work in Bahrain, 10 per cent of the total population of that country. ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/02/the-plight-of-bangladeshi-migrant-workers/ Protesters rally to close 'disgraceful' retention center / The Daily Star Lebanon must immediately close a “disgraceful” retention center where refugees and migrants are held arbitrarily in appalling conditions, activists demanded Sunday. Braving heavy rain, around 60 people demonstrated outside the General Security Retention Center, an underground facility under Beirut’s Adlieh Bridge. ... http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/03/01/lebanese-rally-to-close-disgraceful-retention-center/