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…
Emirati paper: UAE “unfairly” targeted for migrant rights abuses
June 15th, 2010
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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...
Nepali Women in Danger in Saudi
June 12th, 2010
Kuwait Saudi Arabia Trafficking Women
Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to investigate the trafficking of Nepali women between the two countries. Nepali women who have agreed to work in Kuwait are reportedly being sent to Saudi Arabia, where they often find themselves stranded without work or papers. Kuwaiti em...
Rights Group Urges ILO to Bring Out Guidelines for Domestic Workers
June 12th, 2010
Housemaids Legislation News Women
Migrants Forum Asia has called on the ILO to set specific guide lines for domestic workers. The majority of Asia’s 60 million migrant workers are women, and many of them work as housemaids and nannies. MFA believes that existing international conventions do not adequately protect their right...
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 ...
Lebanon: Ethiopian falls from third floor, sustains injuries
June 8th, 2010
Al-Akhbar newspaper reported today that Ethiopian national, Koma Seboka, born in 1982, fell from the balcony of her employer on the third floor in Naccache (North of Beirut). She sustained bruises, broken bones and injuries and was transferred to hospital. Antelias police station opened an investiga...
Jobless in Jeddah: 200 OFWs stranded without pay
June 6th, 2010
200 Philippine healthcare workers have marched to the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah yesterday demanding action against their employer, who has not paid their salaries for six months. The workers are nurses and clinic staff at the Al Ansar Hospital in Jeddah, which is due to be closed. Not only hav...
Migrant workers continue to commit suicide at an alarming rate in Kuwait
June 5th, 2010
Over the month of May, 17 migrant workers have attempted or committed suicide in Kuwait according to a survey of newspaper reports from the country; two maids were injured while trying to escape their sponsor’s house. This is an escalation of a trend we’ve been monitoring for quite some ...
Migrants’ Group Urges Israel to Stop Deportation of Philippine Children
June 5th, 2010
Migrante Middle East has urged the Israeli government to halt plans to deport 1200 children born to undocumented migrant workers. The organization has called on the government to uphold the rights of immigrants as laid out in the UN Convention on the Protection of Migrant Workers and Members of the...
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