30 June 2015, ArabianBusiness.com Laws governing the entry and exit of expat workers in Qatar are to be revised by the end of 2015 following the completion of a review by the government this week. In a statement issued to media on Monday, the Qatari government also pledged to clamp down on “dishonest recruitment practices” […]
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Human Rights Watch, October 2014 Human Rights Watch has released its new report on the human and labour rights violations, which include a range of abuses and forms of exploitation throughout the migration journeys of many female domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. From the Human Rights Watch website: This 79-page report documents how the
10 October 2014, The Daily Star BEIRUT: Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi Friday ordered the closure of two domestic worker recruitment agencies in south Lebanon for violating regulations. According to a ministry statement, Azzi issued an order to shut down one agency in the town of Bint Jbeil and another in Tyre. The minister said he
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8 September 2014, The Daily Star Lebanon BEIRUT: 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 that those migrant domestic workers interviewed as part of this study are victims
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Insan Association, Lebanon – July, 2014 INTRODUCTION Years ago the issue of Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) in Lebanon began to surface in international media. This came as a result of efforts by civil society organizations, including Insan Association, which have worked to shed the light on the multiple violations of Migrant Domestic Workers rights. Migrants
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Maysa Zahra, Migration Policy Centre & Gulf Research Centre / Gulf Labour Markets & Migration, July 2014 ABSTRACT The sponsorship system of the Arab Gulf countries comprises rules and regulations that tie the residence of a migrant worker to his/her sponsor in the country. This paper offers an in-depth ex- amination of the legal framework
21 July 2014, Nigel Wilson, International Business Times Qatar’s government has announced labour market reforms designed to improve the treatment of foreign workers, although some of its most controversial practices remain in place. New measures include restrictions on working outdoors in the hottest hours during the summer and a rule that companies must open bank
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21 July 2014, James M. Dorsey, Hürriyet Daily News A long-awaited Qatar Foundation report recommends a radical overhaul of the labor recruitment system in Asian labor exporting countries as well as the Gulf state that expects to host the 2022 World Cup. The report however stops short of calling for the abolition of Qatar’s widely
Fawaz Shaheen, Times of India, 5 July 2014 As the freedom of trapped Indian nurses in Iraq generates a collective sigh of relief, their story also underlines a rarely discussed issue; the abuse and exploitation of Indian migrant workers in Gulf and Arab countries. Most Gulf countries require foreign workers to have a ‘kafeel’ or
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16 June 2014, Pacific Standard When migrant laborers at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus raised their voices, striking over pay and working conditions, they were treated to arrests, beaten, or in some cases deported—flung back home in despair and in often debt. Within 24 hours after the New York Times reported on this modern
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