Nepali fake passport racket puts Gulf migrants at risk
A growing number of migrant workers from South Asia are travelling to the Middle East and Malaysia on fake passports, thanks to racketeers and corrupt manpower agents. In a worrying development, Nepal...
View ArticleThe Sustained, Unabashed Mistreatment of African Migrants in Israel
The violent and fear-mongering rhetoric wielded by both Israeli political figures and citizens that has recently caught major international media attention reflects the culmination of years of the...
View ArticleEthiopia Imposes Ban on Workers to UAE
Earlier this week, Ethiopia announced a moratorium on domestic and hard labor export to the UAE. The ban is intended to combat recruitment agency exploitation and abuse. “We receive five to 10...
View ArticleMigrant Abuse: November Roundup
Though several new labor agreements were reached this November, the month remains characterized by several atrocities against migrant workers. Below we recapitulate the select cases registered in...
View Article“Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and the Emirates: A Socio-Legal Study on...
In an interview with Voice of America News, University of Amsterdam law professor Annette Vlieger discusses her 2011 dissertation on the characteristics of “social and legal conflicts” between domestic...
View ArticleMigrant Abuse: January Roundup
January has not established an optimistic precedent for migrant workers in 2013. Saudi Arabia’s execution of Sri Lankan worker Rizana Nafeek made international headlines, but other documentation of...
View ArticleHearing Regarding Alem Dechasa’s Suicide Postponed
A Lebanese court has postponed the hearing against Ali Mahfouz, the man captured abusing Alem Dechasa Desisa on video last year. The video was recorded in front of the Ethiopian consulate and depicted...
View Article700 Pakistani Migrants Still Stranded in Saudi
Over 700 Pakistani workers have been stranded in Saudi Arabia since the end of 2011. The victims of a Turkish company’s fraud, the men are prohibited from working legally and from traveling outside of...
View ArticleMigrant Abuse: March Roundup
Migrant Rights’ monthly roundups provide a snapshot of the conditions migrant workers face throughout the Gulf. These reports demonstrate the necessity of structural reforms by evidencing the...
View ArticleOverview: ILO Report on Human Trafficking in the Middle East
[ILO's Arabic summary available here] The ILO’s First Regional Conference on Human Trafficking in the Arab Region concluded Wednesday, in Amman, Jordan. The conference and accompanying report discussed...
View ArticleUAE Dangerously Trivializes ILO’s Trafficking Report
Concerning comments from the National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking undermine efforts to combat forced labor issues in the region; members of the Committee, including the Minister of Foreign...
View ArticleMigrant Abuse: April Roundup
Migrant Rights’ monthly roundups provide a snapshot of the abuses against migrants in the GCC and MENA region. The purpose of documenting these abuses is not to vilify all employers, but to evidence...
View Article“Who Wants an Indonesian Maid?” Trafficking in Qatar
The following image is a troubling screenshot of a QatarLiving.com forum. The post is still active here. who wants an indonesian maid ? I am leaving qatar for good and i have a maid that i would like...
View ArticleIndia to ban maid emigration to Gulf states and Africa
The Pakistani Daily Times reports: NEW DELHI: India will ban women under 30 from emigrating to work as domestic help in the Gulf and parts of Africa and Southeast Asia in a bid to curb sex trafficking,...
View ArticleMiddle Eastern Countries Score Poorly in US Report on Human Trafficking
Middle Eastern countries have fared poorly in the US State Department’s latest report on human trafficking, released last week. (M-R.org and Mideast Youth Readers may be interested to know that this is...
View ArticleHuman trading rampant among recruitment agents' counterparts, says migrant group
“If we think that human trafficking is the ‘modus operandi’ of unlicensed and illegal recruiters victimizing thousands would-be overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and even old-timer OFWs, then we are...
View ArticleKuwaiti Government Official Rejects US Report on Human Trafficking
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...
View ArticleWikileaks and Migrant Workers
Wikileaks are out again with a new batch of information and data. This time, there is tons of content on the situation of migrants in the region and specifically the issue of trafficking. Check this...
View ArticleMigrant Abuse: November Roundup
Though several new labor agreements were reached this November, the month remains characterized by several atrocities against migrant workers. Below we recapitulate the select cases registered in...
View ArticleEthiopia Imposes Ban on Workers to UAE
Earlier this week, Ethiopia announced a moratorium on domestic and hard labor export to the UAE. The ban is intended to combat recruitment agency exploitation and abuse. “We receive five to 10...
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