The Institute for Global Human Rights & Law’s expose of the Classic Factory in Jordan is gaining increasing attention across media platforms. Interviews with several factory workers document the daily abuse inflicted by factory management and ignored by the Jordanian government, oversigh…
Apathy in Jordan: The Classic Fashion Factory Exposed
September 28th, 2011
Abusive employers Jordan Rape Working conditions
GCC Should Reconsider Kafala System, say Nepali Activists
September 25th, 2011
The legal system in GCC countries does not offer sufficient protection to migrant workers, and new legistlation is needed to give them ‘special treatment’, according to Nepali migrant rights activists at a recent conference in Kathmandu. Experts at the conference called on the GCC countr...
OFW group questions PH govt. intention to lift OFWs ban in Iraq
September 20th, 2011
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Migrants’ advocacy group, Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) today questions the intention of the Philippine government plan to lift the ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Iraq after the latter through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) sent a delegation in Iraq ...
Don’t Let Her Commit Your Crime
September 13th, 2011
Housemaids Lebanon Suicide Working conditions
Last week, Kafa announced the launching of their new, long awaitned media campaign for raising consciousness on domestic workers issues, with a clear focus on the tremendously high suicide rates. Kafa is a local NGO operating from Lebanon, a country where a 2008 HRW report stated that the average de...
Kenyans in Saudi: Modern Day Slavery
September 12th, 2011
Saudi Arabia Trafficking Women
Two weeks ago, Asha Ali, a Kenyan woman working in Saudi Arabia, sent the following SOS message to her mother: “Mom, yesterday my boss asked me if I want to be sold or not. I fear he might kill me. If it is God’s plan that I die in Saudi Arabia, there is nothing I can do. Bye mom” The ...
Positive Changes for Migrants in Lebanon?
September 10th, 2011
Lebanon has made some changes to the way that it receives migrant workers, according to this article in the DailyStar Changes include the distribution of manuals to incoming workers on rights and responsibilities, trained staff on hand to ‘greet’ incoming workers and better rooms in theÂ...
Libya’s ‘New Racism’
September 5th, 2011
Black African migrants in Libya face an increasingly perilous situation. As we have blogged before, black African migrants have been the target of attacks by anti-Gaddafi forces on suspicion of being mercenaries for the regime since the conflict in Libya began. Recent reports suggest that the dange...
Filipinos in Syria
September 5th, 2011
Many Filipino domestic workers are in dire need for help amidst the turmoil escalating for weeks since the Syria revolution erupted in June. Activist groups have welcomed the recall of the Phillipine ambassador to Syria by order of the Department of Foreign Affairs. It has become clear that the am...
Ad Campaign on Suicides
September 2nd, 2011
A new campaign by Lebanese organisation Kafa tackles the issues of weekly “suicides” by migrant domestic workers. This is a brave campaign compared to many previous others which have been labelled as apologetic and unconsiouly racist by civil society actors while trying to tackle racism....
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