Maid in Kuwait sentenced 5 years for baby outside wedlock
A Ugandan maid recently jailed for having a baby outside wedlock received a five year prison sentence on Monday. She will be deported after serving her sentence. Fatuma Nambi, 32, has been held at...
View ArticleVideo: Ethiopian women imprisoned in Kuwait call for rescue
Earlier this month, a group of Ethiopian women sent out a distress call from a Kuwaiti prison. A cell-phone video circulated on Facebook and Ethiopian websites showed over 10 women in a single cell,...
View ArticleWhere are our passports?
Many Ugandan migrants are being repatriated from GCC countries without their passports. Their travel and identity documents have been confiscated by their kafeels (sponsors), making their deportations...
View ArticleDetention of Migrant Workers at Kuwait’s Central Prison
Detention conditions invite scrutiny as crackdowns against migrant workers intensify. Workers awaiting deportation are regularly subject to indefinite detention in substandard facilities....
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Unified Contract for Kuwait’s Private Sector
After months of promising a unified contract for workers in the private sector, Kuwait’s Public Authority for Manpower (MPA) finally put the unified contract into effect in January 2016. The authority...
View ArticleThree Filipina Domestic Workers Flee Abuse and Forced Labor in Kuwait
A year ago, three Filipina women arrived in Kuwait to work in a house in the Qurtuba area. Their employer, a Kuwaiti matriarch, immediately took away their passports. She woke them up each morning with...
View ArticleKuwaiti sponsor pushes maid out of driving vehicle
Kuwaiti press has recently reported on the case of an Asian domestic worker who was pushed out of a driving vehicle by her sponsor. The Kuwaiti man was taking the victim to the recruitment agency in...
View ArticleKuwait sets minimum wage for domestic workers
Kuwait became the first Gulf country to set a standardized minimum wage for domestic workers on Thursday. The decision comes as part of wider efforts to regulate the domestic worker industry, though...
View ArticleThree Filipina Domestic Workers Flee Abuse and Forced Labor in Kuwait
A year ago, three Filipina women arrived in Kuwait to work in a house in the Qurtuba area. Their employer, a Kuwaiti matriarch, immediately took away their passports. She woke them up each morning with...
View Article7 years in Kuwait with no leave: Indian migrant forced to disappear
A middle-aged Indian migrant, “SG,” arrived in Kuwait to work for a shipping company in 2004. In India, SG had signed a contract to work as manager of the company’s research and development department....
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Ugandan maid sentenced for having a baby outside wedlock returns home
Earlier this month, Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Ahmad Al Sabah has pardoned 33-year Ugandan domestic worker Fatuma Nambi, who was sentenced to 5 years for having a baby outside of wedlock. The Emiri...
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KSHR Produces Rights booklet for Domestic Workers in Kuwait
Earlier this month, the Kuwait Society for Human Rights (KSHR) in cooperation with the Department of Domestic Labor in the Ministry of Interior and the Dutch Embassy in Kuwait, published a booklet that...
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What’s the real deal behind Kuwait’s segregated health care?
Back in 2013, Kuwaiti authorities announced for the first time their “experiment” to segregate hospitals in order to “decrease pressure on health facilities.” During those three years, the health...
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Kuwait’s expat teachers will not be compensated, despite Court order
Earlier this year, Kuwait’s constitutional court issued a landmark ruling in favor of an expat female teacher’s case against the Ministry of Education. In April 2011, the Ministry excluded female...
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Workers protest in Kuwait, teachers promise to strike
Expat teachers in Kuwait dress in black to express their objection to the new decision [Al-Jarida]We have been reporting on the story of expat teachers in Kuwait as it unfolds, following the decision...
View ArticleKuwait to exempt employers from paying return airfare for domestic workers...
A recent decision by Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior will exempt sponsors from paying return airfare for domestic workers reported as absconding (‘runaways’), or who have any other criminal charges...
View ArticleExpatriates banned from Kuwait’s airport
Kuwaiti authorities seem to find a "solution" for everything in banning expatriates! A couple of months ago, the Ministry of Interior said it will not renew the residencies of up to 100,000 domestic...
View ArticleMigrants in Kuwaiti Parliament: Problems, not Workers
Kuwait’s parliament plays a key role in blocking rights of non-citizens, either through enacting discriminatory legislation, supporting ministerial decrees that violate expatriate rights, and even...
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Migration in the Gulf: 2016 in Review
The Gulf region experienced as tumultuous a 2016 as the rest of the world; falling oil prices and contracted budgets compounded meagre protections for migrants, as thousands of construction workers...
View ArticleKuwait’s Domestic Labor Law: One Year Later
Over a year has passed since Kuwait’s parliament approved a law on the recruitment and employment of domestic workers. The new law was widely celebrated by state officials and international...
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