9 September 2014, Albawaba.com Migrant worker recruitment agencies are making elaborate profits off the back of migrant domestic workers who continue to face extremely harsh labor and living conditions in Lebanon, a new report said. “The report found th... read more
Kafa (Enough) Violence Against Women, September 2014 On September 8, KAFA (Enough) Violence Against Women (Lebanon) released a report entitled “Dreams for Sale: The Exploitation of Domestic Workers from Recruitment in Nepal and Bangladesh to Working... read more
9 September 2014, Tanzania Daily News THE government has unveiled its approved list of qualified labour recruitment agencies, which are permitted to work in the country. Speaking with reporters in Dar es Salaam, on Monday, the Communications Officer in th... read more
25 August 2014, The Daily Star Lebanon When Lucy met a representative of a Jordanian employment agency in the Philippines, the official promised her a sales position in Jordan with a salary increase after two months, allowing Lucy to send money back to he... read more
26 August 2014, Press.co.nz Migrant workers in New Zealand are at risk of working in slavery-like conditions, a Human Rights Commission diversity forum has heard. Organisers of the two-day forum, which finished in Christchurch yesterday, said the treatmen... read more
UFCW Canada, 2011 This annual Report was compiled [by UFCW Canada] to educate about the draconian federal Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) and the genuine human cost that continues to scar Canada’s reputation internationally. More importantly, t... read more
4 August 2014, News10ABC.net Thousands of miles from home, stained with toxic chemicals and threatened with guns, workers say they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to. The migrant workers, all from Mexico, were in a foreign country and they say th... read more
17 July, 2014 – SBS, AAP Critics say the plan to allow foreign workers to access temporary visas to work on oil rigs would have allowed migrant workers to be exploited at the expense of Australian jobs. The Coalition planned to remove a requirement ... read more
Migrant workers pay an equivalent of two years’ salaries in fees in their home countries to unscrupulous recruiters and agencies to come work in Canada. To pay these fees, entire families go into debt. Often times, when workers arrive here, work conditi... read more
Agence France Presse, The Daily Star Lebanon DOHA: World Cup 2022 host Qatar, under international criticism over working conditions for migrant workers, said recruitment agencies in Asia were the main party to blame for any abuse. A report commissioned by... read more