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Middle East - Issues, Concerns, Campaigns |
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| Three Indonesian female workers die in Jordan |
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Three Indonesian female workers from Indramayu were reported killed under employment in Jordan, while two of them fell from high-rise buildings to their death.
The return to Indonesia of the three dead bodies was delayed for several months, They were scheduled to arrive on Oct 18. (view link)
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| Abandoned by employer, very ill Pinay in Jeddah seeks help |
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A diabetes-stricken Filipino worker in Jeddah is asking for help from anyone who cares, saying that her employer has disowned her due to ballooning hospital bills.
Aida Gutierrez, a sewer in Jeddah, was taken to the Saudi German Hospital on October 2 and was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and renal failure.
Because of her critical condition, she was confined at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, causing her hospital fees to hit 100,000 Saudi riyals or about P1.3 million as on this week. (view link)
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| Migrant workers’ children face marginalisation, racism |
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Many of the estimated 200,000 migrant domestics living in Lebanon - most of them women from the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia - have no legal status in the country.
Their children born in Lebanon thus have no official identity, and no statistics on their numbers exist.
For Sri Lankans, Filipinos and West Africans, Lebanese law allows for a child who is already registered in a Lebanese school to have residency, but many children of domestics face marginalisation and racism because of their parents' social status. (view link)
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| OFW executed in Saudi Arabia |
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A Filipino convicted of murder was executed in Saudi Arabia after his death sentence was affirmed by the Supreme Court.
Jenifer Bidoya alias Venancio Ladion was beheaded at 10 a.m. Tuesday (Saudi time). He was sentenced to death by the Jeddah Shari’ah’s Grand Court in April 2007 for killing a Saudi national guard. (view link)
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| Stranded Filipinos at Kish Island - hungry, homeless, dying |
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Kish Island is a nightmare island for stranded Filipinos. They go hungry, homeless and even take their lives due to desperation. Still, the Philippine government refuses to lift a finger to address their plight.
The Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants, a regional migrant centre working in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions, today calls the attention of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to immediately act on the deteriorating condition of Filipinos at Kish Island, the most common exit point for Filipinos who are extending their visa for the nearby United Arab Emirates.
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Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia are often subjected to abuse that in some cases amount to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious charges of theft or "witchcraft," a human rights group said Tuesday.
A 133-page report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch urged Saudi Arabia to implement labor, immigration and criminal justice reforms to protect the workers, saying employers often face no punishment for such abuses.
The report said that rather than receiving justice, domestic workers -- most of them migrants from Asia -- are more likely to face counter-accusations of witchcraft, theft or adultery. (view link)
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| Migrant Bodies Washed Up in Yemen |
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Around 35 Somalis have drowned as they tried to cross to Yemen from Somalia.
It was alleged that the crew of the boats on which the Somali refugees were riding forced them at gunpoint to jump off in the middle of the sea and swim to Yemen's coasts.
The refugees are trying to flee the country due to the civil war that has ensued in Somalia since 1991.
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| Kuwaiti government maltreats and expels Bangladeshi migrants |
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Kuwaiti government maltreats and expels Bangladeshi migrants. Instead of heeding the demands of Bangladeshi migrant workers for the release of their salaries and several benefits they rightly own, the Kuwaiti government arrested, inhumanly treated and deported them. Already, around 1,400 have been deported.
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HUMAN rights and social activists have slammed a call by a group of MPs to ban Bangladeshis from living in Bahrain due to their alleged criminal nature.
The activists said that if Bahrain implemented the move, it would be in breach of United Nations laws on human rights.
They described the proposal as xenophobic and contrary to human rights laws, particularly after Bahrain won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday. (view link)
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