Void in coverage of Kuwait’s suicides
Migrant suicides are incredibly frequent in the Gulf, but Migrant Rights tries to avoid merely delineating list after list of their occurrences; deaths are more than mere statistics, despite the...
View ArticleKuwait TV Channel Mocks Migrant Worker Abuse
The Kuwaiti channel Funoon TV has taken the trivialization of migrant rights to another level; the video above is a clip of a mock interview with a Kuawiti man imitating a domestic worker. The man,...
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 ArticleSri Lankan President Rajapaksa to Meet With Gulf Heads of State Next Week
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is set to participate in the first Asian Corporation Dialogue Summit in Kuwait on the 16 and 17 of October. The summit is aimed at “consolidate[ing] Asia’s...
View ArticleNew 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 ArticleManolo Abella Speaks
Below is the first installment of a series of cross-posts from DiamondMinds, a portal created by Chanzo Greenidge, Ph.D, to facilitate multidisciplinary discourse on migrant issues. This interview was...
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 ArticleKuwait’s Ineffective and Inequitable Crackdown on Undocumented Workers
Kuwaiti authorities have conductedintensive sweeps against undocumented migrant workers in recent weeks. The Ministry of the Interior’s security team rounded up hundreds of migrants working without...
View ArticleKuwait Continues Fierce Crackdown on Migrant Workers
Kuwait’s mass deportation of undocumented migrant workers has continued unabated since early this year. Other GCC states including Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar also launched reinvigorated ‘security’...
View ArticleKuwait: 67 thousand residencies cancelled in 2012
Following its recent crackdown on undocumented migrants, Kuwait has revealed important information regarding the numbers of migrants who have left the country or were deported during the year of 2012....
View ArticleMistreatment of Domestic Workers in a Kuwaiti Soap Opera
The plots of Gulf soap operas and TV programs often focus on family issues and struggles, of which of course the domestic worker is always ever-present but peripheral. Housemaids are never represented...
View Articleالكويت مطالبة بالإفراج عن المهاجرين المعتقلين في الحملة الأمنية
في استطلاع أجرته جريدة “عرب تايمز” الصادرة بالإنجليزية في الكويت، عبر المشاركون عن مطالباتهم للبرلمان الجديد الذي انتخب في الشهر الماضي. ٤٧٪ من الأصوات طالبت بمعاملة لينة في الحملة الأمنية التي استهدفت...
View ArticleKuwait deports migrants with infectious diseases
After having deported 28232 migrants last year and two thousand since April only for traffic violations, Kuwait is drawing more laws with deportation being the number one card of punishment against...
View ArticleProbing Kuwait’s Segregated Health Services
In March 2013, Kuwait approved a law to segregate public health services, purportedly to reduce long wait times. Citizens would be treated in the mornings, and expatriates in the afternoons, except in...
View ArticleRape, Fear, Exploitation consequences of Kuwait’s “security” campaigns
Kuwait has deported thousands of migrant workers since launching its unrelenting “security’ campaigns early this year. Undocumented and documented migrants alike have been targeted, detained, and...
View Articleالجالية الفلبينية في الكويت تطالب حكومتها بمنع إرسال الخادمات لحمايتهم من...
استطاعت الجالية الفلبينية في الكويت بقيادة منظمة “أوراغون سا – الكويت” من جمع أكثر من ١٠ آلاف توقيع تطالب بوقف استقدام العمالة المنزلية من الفلبين إلى الكويت. وتنص العريضة الموجهة للسلطات الفلبينية أن...
View ArticleKuwait: Months-old baby in Jail
A horrifying story was featured in the last page of the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Qabas. The report said that a baby who is less than a year old is living in prison right now. The child is allegedly...
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 ArticleDeaths, suicides and more clorox incidents
The situaiton in Kuwait the past two weeks has been chaotic and ugly. The Arab Times reports here on a 39-year old Indian worker who has died. Her body was found in her sponsor’s house after -it is...
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