UPDATES TO KAFALA
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January 8, 2021 | English
As the Arab countries follow the Kafala system, a restrictive and exploitative employer-employee contract, workers often face different kinds of rights violations.
January 7, 2021 | English
Juanita Ndagire was sure that she had a well-paying receptionist job waiting for her at a hotel in Dubai when she left home in Uganda in search for greener pastures. This was, however, a lie that the agents she was working with invented to sell her into slavery thousands of miles away from home.
January 3, 2021 | English
Domestic workers, who are also subject to gender-based domestic violence in the areas at which they work, are completely excluded from the Lebanese labor law, and are not subject to any written protections of the Kafala System.
January 2, 2021 | English
The Philippines and the Kingdom of Bahrain vowed to strengthen bilateral ties based on deep respect, shared values, and true friendship as the Middle Eastern nation ensured that Filipinos in the kingdom will be well taken care of.
January 2, 2021 | English
President Duterte expressed the Philippines’ readiness to help the Kingdom of Bahrain advocate reforms in the “egregious” kafala or sponsorship system.
January 2, 2021 | English
Filipino workers were briefly banned from going to Kuwait following Villavende's death. The Kuwaiti woman was accused of months of abuse and torture ahead of the domestic worker's killing.
January 2, 2021 | English
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to cooperate with the Kingdom of Bahrain in upholding migrant workers’ rights, particularly, in advocating reforms in the kafala or sponsorship system prevalent in the Middle East.
December 31, 2020 | English
The pandemic and resulting economic crises have led tens of thousands of migrant workers around the world to return to their home countries
December 31, 2020 | English
The Golden Rule is a principle shared across cultures and religions, which is to treat others as you would want to be treated. Its application requires one thing, empathy.
However, having the ability to step into someone else’s shoes isn’t always easy. Otherwise, the world would surely have been a better place.
December 31, 2020 | English
Aziza Sbaity is the fastest woman in Lebanese history, clocking in at 11.73 seconds in the 100 meter dash in Qatar. She has battled a lifetime of adversity to get where she is fleeing the Liberian civil war at the age of 10, becoming estranged from her mother for 8 years, being discriminated against in Lebanon, and competing professionally with hamstring syndrome.
Here, she mentions the Kafala system, among many other issues.