Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Stranded Pinoys in still traded, group says By Isagani de la Paz (Sun Star of Manila) QUEZON CITY -- Filipino workers, mostly women, in Lebanon are still being traded for new employees after getting sidetracked from work when...
Lire la suiteNimalka Fernando This paper focuses on migrant workers from , who are predominantly women. The Sri Lankan Bureau for Foreign Employment (SLBFE) regulates foreign employment, including the licensing and monitoring of recruiting agencies. The Government...
Lire la suiteEntretien avec une assistante sociale du conseil libanais contre les violences faites aux femmes Au Liban, la question des violences faites aux femmes n’est pas au cœur des préoccupations politiques ou sociales. Les événements qu’a traversé le pays depuis...
Lire la suiteInternational Movement against all Forms of Discrimination and Racism There are about 12 lakhs(1.2 mil.) of Sri Lankans employed in the Gulf countries. Further, there are about 300,000 who have migrated through unofficial channels. The remittance received...
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Migrant Workers in by Michael Young 2000 The objective of this study is to examine the conditions of migrant workers in , their roles, problems, networks, and future. It is inevitable that such a study will, in many respects, say as much about Lebanese...
Lire la suite"Maid in ": protecting the rights of migrant domestic workers Driven by extreme poverty in their home countries, thousands of female migrant workers go each year to the Arab States in order to earn enough money to support their families. What they find...
Lire la suiteBrief on Foreign Female Domestic Maids in Lebanon LEBANESE NGO FORUM By: Dr Ray Jureidini and Nayla Moukarbel Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences American University of Beirut December, 2000 http://www.lnf.org.lb/migrationnetwork/mig6.html
Lire la suite2002 United Nations INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, on trafficking in women, women’s migration and violence...
Lire la suiteUNITED ARAB EMIRATES: MIGRANT WOMEN IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES The case of female domestic workers by Rima Sabban Gender Promotion Programme International Labour Office Geneva http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/download/swmuae.pdf
Lire la suiteMigrant Women June 2003 By Ana Elena Obando, WHRnet Overview Although there are many reasons why women work abroad (war and economic, social and political situations, etc.), labor migration is directly related to the global economic and political model...
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