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Filipinos hired as fishermen in Saudi Arabia seek repatriation
July 28th, 2011
Ten overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were told to believe by a recruitment agent that they will work as fishermen only to find out, upon arrival to Saudi Arabia, there are no such jobs waiting for them, according to Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of Filipino migrants group providing assistance to...
Lebanon: Attempted suicide of an Ethiopian from a hospital
July 25th, 2011
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today the suicide attempt of an Ethiopian lady, Tseha K., who jumped from the first floor of a hospital in el-`Azounieh – Mdeirej, where she was being treating for a nervous breakdown. She sustained injuries in the head and hip. Information by security for...
Kuwaiti Government Official Rejects US Report on Human Trafficking
July 18th, 2011
Housemaids Kuwait Trafficking Working conditions
Kuwait has been rated many times as one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to combating human trafficking as seen in the US State Department annual reports, Human Rights Watch, and other international human rights organizations. On the 14th of July, Al-Qabas newspaper published statem...
Kuwait: Months-old baby in Jail
July 18th, 2011
Housemaids Kuwait Prisoners Women
A horrifying story was featured in the last page of the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Qabas. The report said that a baby who is less than a year old is living in prison right now. The child is allegedly the result of “adultery” between an Indonesian housemaid and a Bengali man. The woman co...
ILO criticizes the status of domestic workers in Kuwait
July 18th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Kuwait Rape Suicide Women
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas tried on the 18th of July to sum up in five lines the results of the International Labor organization meeting with Kuwaiti representatives discussing the status of workers in Kuwait. The ILO representatives said that Kuwait needs to work on protecting domestic workers ...
Challenges to establish Eritrean identity
July 15th, 2011
General Israel Legal cases Legislation Refugees
A recent case before the Tel Aviv Administrative Court highlighted the common misunderstandings which may occur when asylum seekers apply for protection in Israel. Tigset, an Eritrean asylum seeker, was ordered to leave Israel in March 2010. The Israeli Ministry of Interior (MoI) deemed her to be Et...
Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel unite
July 14th, 2011
General Israel Racism Refugees Slavery Trafficking
“I didn’t feel my country as my country. Every day my life was disturbed, I was suppressed. I could not live my life in such a way”. These are the words of Kidane Isaac who was caught attempting to flee Eritrea by the border police and sent to military prison in 2007. After four months, he and...
Satirical Tourism Ads Highlight the Mistreatment of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
July 1st, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Working conditions
Below is an interview we conducted with Alex Shams, a coordinator with the Migrant Workers Task Force in Lebanon. The organization recently produced three excellent spoof tourism ads for Lebanon, describing the different abuses domestic workers suffer in Lebanon. M-R: Could you describe the work of ...
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