New report on Migrants in Yemen and October Roundup
[Previous Migrant Rights reports on African migrants in Yemen can be found here.] A new report from Yemen highlights the struggles African migrants face on the Northern Yemen-Saudi Arabian border. The...
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 ArticleWho Failed Rizana Nafeek?
Rizana Nafeek was beheaded on January 9, less than two days after a final appeal made by Sri Lankan President Rajapakaa. The several clemency appeals made by Sri Lanka, other states, and human rights...
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Bahrain Labor Camp Fire Kills 13 Migrant Workers
A fire in a Manama labor camp killed at least 13 migrant workers on January 11. No information regarding the cause of the fire has been released, but Bahraini labour camps hold a seriously dangerous...
View ArticleCombating Disinformation In the Wake of Rizana Nafeek’s Execution
The international condemnation of Rizana Nafeek’s unjust execution has not elicited a positive response from Saudi authorities. There have been no promises for reform or pledges to reexamine the...
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 ArticleMigrant Abuse: February Roundup
Negligence in safety precautions caused several fatalities and injuries this month. Two 21-year old migrant workers died from asphyxiation while performing maintenance on a water tank at an Emrati...
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 ArticleViolence Against Migrants: July Roundup
Our monthly roundups of issues affecting migrant workers are an effort to improve documentation of migrant abuse, which is overwhelmingly scattered and difficult to access. These stories rarely make...
View ArticleViolence Against Migrants: August Roundup
An overwhelming number of suicides and attempted suicides have once again occurred in the Gulf this month. In Kuwait, an Indian maid attempted suicide by slitting her wrists in her employer’s bathroom....
View ArticleMake OFWs protection, ratification of ILO Convention on Domestic Workers a...
A Filipino migrants’ right group in the Middle East today urges President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to bring up OFW protection a focal point of discussion with the Kuwait Emir who is in the country for...
View ArticleNepalese Domestic Worker Murdered in Desert
Early this week, an anonymous person discovered the remains of a Nepalese domestic worker in Kuwait's Mina Abdullah desert. Her employer, a "military man," confessed to the murder and is currently...
View ArticlePoor working conditions cause deaths in Bahrain
10 Bangladeshis were killed in a fire that struck an illegal make-shift labor camp designed to hold less than half that number. The lodgings were never inspected by the government because the workers...
View ArticleViolence against migrants: June roundup
Violence against migrants in June sustained similar patterns and frequencies as in previous months this year. Several cases of suicide and attempted suicide once again were registered with authorities:...
View ArticleNepal's Ambassador to Riyadh Misdirects Blame
Over 3,000 Nepalese migrant workers have died in Saudi Arabia since the year 2000. This number represents only those deaths officially recorded by the embassy, meaning the actual death toll is likely...
View ArticleMideast Despots: Begetting, enduring, and committing violence against migrants
This past year, we've witnessed radical change in the Middle East. As the power of the People fills the streets, a demand to reclaim basic human rights rings throughout the the region. But as change...
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