tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53392397349062157152011-11-27T16:41:39.714-08:00Migrant News Sri LankaNews ,Information & Stories of Sri Lankan & Asian Migrant Workers & Returnees
sanrimsl@yahoo.comSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.comBlogger4381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-11036587584095659332011-06-22T11:03:00.001-07:002011-06-22T11:03:25.196-07:00Migrant workers pension scheme: Silent theftBy Lakshan J.S. Dias
Migrant workers are the most innocent and victimised community in Sri Lanka where there is no proper organisation for their rights or benefit. The institution created for their benefit is the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) which is a questionable entity whether they really act on behalf of the migrant workers. Now the government has triggered another problemSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-58047034545521342792011-06-22T10:35:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:35:35.892-07:00Alleged rapist freedA Sri Lankan man who was arrested in Jordan over the weekend over allegations of rape and abuse of women at a garment factory, has been set free, the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights said.
Charles Kernaghan, director of the institute told News Now.lk that Anil Shantha was freed yesterday and he is now back at the same garment factory in Jordan.
“Anil Santha was imprisoned for rape SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-47349366515248386992011-06-22T10:30:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:30:59.162-07:00SL women ‘routinely raped’ in JordanScores of young Sri Lankan women working in a garment factory called ‘Classic Factory’ in Jordan sewing clothing for world renowned clothing outlets have suffered routine sexual abuse and repeated rapes, and in some cases even torture, a report released by an organization called Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights said.
Issuing a full detailed report, the US based organization said, SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-86536140549436616832011-06-22T10:28:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:28:30.040-07:00Jordan probing abuse claimsThe Jordan labour minister started investigating allegations of sexual abuse, torture and rape against foreign workers in a garment factory in Jordan’s Al Hassan Industrial Estate (QIZ) reported by a US-based labour advocacy group.
The 82-page report, issued by the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights (IGLHR), cited testimonies compiled via interviewing foreign workers at Classic FashionSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-80535729134865973432011-06-22T10:27:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:27:37.708-07:00Investigation in to maid tortureBy Gandhya Senanayake
The Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment has requested Lebanese officials to conduct a criminal investigation in to the alleged torture of a Sri Lankan maid, after she was forced to gulp down iron nails by her previous employer, the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau told Daily Mirror online
The maid identified as Malkanthi had reportedly told her new employer that sheSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-18067443634339797442011-06-22T10:23:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:23:31.671-07:00One parent pardons RizanaBy Sumaiya Rizvi
One parent of the dead Saudi infant had pardoned her however both parents had to pardon if she were to be acquitted, Minister of foreign employment promotion and welfare Dilan Perera said yesterday at a press conference.
Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana is in death row in Saudi Arabia for the death of an infant. Her execution had been suspended by the king and her fate is now in theSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-41296461861034064412011-06-22T10:15:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:21:36.676-07:00Lankan housemaid severely torturedBy- R. Anurudthan
A woman resident of Vakarai was severely tortured in Saudi Arabia by her employer that left her seriously maimed. She was handed over to her relatives at the Foreign Employment Bureau Office, on Monday. The Victim is Manohary Bawani, a mother of two children who went to Saudi Arabia in June 2003 to work as a housemaid in Damam.
The trouble started when she had asked for her SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-40010702341922948962011-06-22T10:09:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:09:44.387-07:00Deported Lankans landedAbout 40 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers, who were deported from Britain, arrived here this morning, police said.
A senior police officer confirmed that currently statements were being recorded from them by a special team from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). “We were just recording statements from them, once the procedure is over we will allow them to go soon,” the official said. (SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-69852756589292732292011-06-22T10:07:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:07:06.798-07:00Decomposed body of Lankan recoveredThe partially decomposed remains of a 30-year-old Sri Lankan woman who is said to have died of internal bleeding have been referred to Forensics, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
The daily quoting Kuwaiti security sources said police and paramedics acting on information from neighbors of the woman that foul smell was emanating from her apartment got permission from the Public Prosecution and SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-26437584423083245922011-06-22T10:03:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:03:08.223-07:00Last of stranded Lankans leaveThe Sri Lankan Consulate cleared Monday the last batch of 117 stranded workers who were languishing under Jeddah's Kandara bridge, a popular location for stranded foreign laborers.
"This was the last batch of the 1,000 Sri Lankan workers who were living under the bridge in Jeddah since November," said Consul General Sabarullah Khan.
He added that the final group comprising 53 women were SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-16761646215143593572011-06-22T09:58:00.001-07:002011-06-22T10:00:23.174-07:00SL maid rescued after 13 yearsA Sri Lankan housemaid was kept against her will by her Saudi sponsor and not paid since she came to the Kingdom in 1997, sources from the Jazan governorate said.
According to the sources, the authorities rescued 45-year-old Weerawardena Hettiarachchilage Indrani Mallika Hettiarachchi and arrested the sponsor on instructions from Jazan Gov. Prince Muhammad bin Nasser, who had been tipped off SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-9134899018879153872011-02-05T05:47:00.001-08:002011-02-05T05:47:32.254-08:00LANKAN MIGRANT WORKERS TAKEN TO OTHER AREAS BEYOND LOW PAYING MIDDLE EASTERN ZONESri Lankan migrant workers must be taken to other areas beyond the low-paying Middle East Zone, says Dullas Alahapperuma, Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development.
He made this observation while addressing a function in Colombo yesterday.
An agreement was signed with the Minster of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities yesterday to provide a national SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-9891932555881199042011-01-17T03:00:00.000-08:002011-01-17T03:00:14.158-08:00Look after our Middle East earners NOWLakbima
By Sqn. Ldr. J.T. Rex Fernando
With monotonous regularity there are reports in the newspapers of blatant harassment, exploitation and deprivation of legitimate dues of our migrant workers in the Middle East . The most recent cases of torturing of housemaids with nails have been shocking. The following are some of the recent news paper reports of harassment and torture of our migrant SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-14873785049707405622011-01-17T02:56:00.001-08:002011-01-17T02:56:47.675-08:00Skinned AliveSunday Leader - January 16, 2011
By Ranee Mohamed
She can neither sit, nor stand. She can neither sleep or straighten. As she squirms in pain, more painful is the memory of a torture of a lifetime that Sri Lankan housemaid Ana Ummu Fanoon (39) alleges that she underwent in the house where she was employed for eight months in Saudi Arabia .
Hamdu Thaslim of Ambana, Na-Ula, did not have a steady SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-68510142745773653582011-01-10T01:01:00.001-08:002011-01-10T01:01:33.843-08:00Lankan maid rape accused acquittedSunday, 02 January 2011 11:40
The Kuwait Criminal Court acquitted a resident accused of sexually assaulting his Sri Lankan housemaid. The case file indicates the maid was hired from a domestic recruitment agency, and the suspect had gone with his wife to buy clothing and asked the maid to wear them.
The housemaid claimed she refused to put the clothes on, and she went into her room but the SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-82712489362837295112011-01-06T06:10:00.000-08:002011-01-06T06:10:05.649-08:00Maid shows wounds to judge in Saudi ArabiaRIYADH: An Indonesian house maid who has accused her female Saudi employer of stabbing, beating and burning her appeared in court for the first time yesterday and showed her wounds, an Indonesian official said.
Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, 23, “showed the judge her injuries, especially her head,” said Diddi Wahyudi, an Indonesian consular official in Jeddah.
The Saudi woman was arrested after SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-88403582917631374322011-01-06T06:08:00.000-08:002011-01-06T06:08:31.537-08:0043 migrants drown off Yemen coastADEN: At least 43 African migrants trying to reach Yemen by boat have drowned in heavy seas off the coast, and a second boat with up to 40 Ethiopians aboard is missing, Yemen’s Interior Ministry
said yesterday.
The ministry website said three Somalis were rescued after a vessel carrying 46 people, mostly from Ethiopia, capsized, and a second boat carrying Ethiopians was missing.
• The PeninsulaSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-27309729580337786272011-01-03T23:37:00.000-08:002011-01-03T23:37:13.732-08:00Deserted workers to fly homeKhaleej Times Online > NATION
Ismail Sebugwaawo
4 January 2011
RAS AL KHAIMAH - After spending months in harsh conditions without proper food and, sometimes, with no electricity and water in their accommodation units, around 150 Indian employees will finally be sent home this week.
These workers, who also include a few skilled employees, have been working for Anvem FZC — a ventilator SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-35849124536107704352011-01-03T23:35:00.001-08:002011-01-03T23:35:39.364-08:00India proposes hike in minimum wages for its workers(Sajila Saseendran)
4 January 2011
DUBAI - In a move to ensure better welfare of its expatriate workforce, India has proposed a revision of minimum monthly wages for various categories of its workers employed in the UAE, Khaleej Times has learnt.
The Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi has also proposed to categorise the positions occupied by the Indian workers so as to have clarity on the new wage SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-15172052739295021072011-01-03T23:13:00.000-08:002011-01-03T23:13:01.939-08:00Lankan maid rape accused acquittedSunday, 02 January 2011 11:40
The Kuwait Criminal Court acquitted a resident accused of sexually assaulting his Sri Lankan housemaid. The case file indicates the maid was hired from a domestic recruitment agency, and the suspect had gone with his wife to buy clothing and asked the maid to wear them.
The housemaid claimed she refused to put the clothes on, and she went into her room but the manSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-85621594098061103362010-12-12T23:48:00.001-08:002010-12-12T23:48:12.333-08:00Rizana's release - Govt.ready to pay blood moneyby Ananda Kannangara
Foreign Employment Promotion Minister Dilan Perera yesterday assured that the Government was prepared to pay blood money to the parents of the victimised Saudi child at any moment to release the convicted Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nasik.
The Saudi Arabian King last week withheld the death sentence passed by the Daw Admi High Courts in Saudi Arabia against Rizana Nasik SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-60589253651626369292010-11-14T22:23:00.000-08:002010-11-14T22:23:02.326-08:00More than 20 nailsBy Pushpa Kumara Jayaratne
The Government has called for a full report from Sri Lanka ’s envoy in Kuwait City in connection with the second case of an alleged nailing of a housemaid by her Arab employer in that country, a senior official said yesterday.
Letchumi in hospital
External Affairs Minitry’s Consular Affairs director Somadasa Wijeysundera said a report was expected in Colombo SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-86237094838691929762010-11-14T22:20:00.000-08:002010-11-14T22:20:21.911-08:00Saudi King responds to plea for RizanaSunday Times
Saudi King responds to plea for Rizana
By Leon Berenger
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has directed officials to hold talks with the household in which a Sri Lankan female domestic is alleged to have murdered a toddler in her charge as discreet diplomatic efforts were underway to secure her release, a senior official said yesterday.
The maid-Rizana Razeek has been SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-40659622181116452872010-11-14T22:17:00.000-08:002010-11-14T22:17:04.275-08:00Maid tortured in JordanDaily Mirror - Novembere 15, 2010
Sri Lanka is probing allegations that one of its nationals employed in Jordan was forced to swallow nails, in the third case involving alleged torture in three months.
A housemaid identified as D M Chandima has told the Sri Lankan diplomatic mission in Amman that her employer forced her to swallow six nails, an official at the Foreign Employment Bureau of Sri SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-1456264111880401292010-11-09T06:07:00.003-08:002010-11-09T06:07:01.662-08:00Rizana is a victim of non existence of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia , continues brutality and lack of international condemnation of Saudi Arabia .SANRIM as a migrant workers advocacy initiative strongly condemn the failure of Sri Lankan state on substantial legal interventions to save and protect the interest of Rizana Nafeek. We take this opportunity to extend our solidarity with Rizanas family on this sorrowful moment and we are proud of their courage. We understand the entire scenario of Rizana with state irresponsibility and SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-91106291581261174162010-11-09T06:05:00.001-08:002010-11-09T06:05:34.117-08:00Housemaid At National Hospital Alleges She Was Assaulted By Three Sons In Master’s House•X-rays reveal possible nerve damage in woman who returned from Saudi Arabia
By Ranee Mohamed
Raja Kumari
Perumal Raja Kumari (35) a mother of three who arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport on November 2 was admitted to the National Hospital in Colombo after she began staggering — suffering from blackouts, bruises, dizziness and pain in the ears.
“My sister arrived at the airport SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-52772172544902093812010-11-09T06:04:00.003-08:002010-11-09T06:04:18.225-08:00* Sri Lankan migrant workers stranded in Kuwait to return homeSun, Nov 7, 2010, 10:24 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk , Sri Lanka .
Nov 07, Colombo : Sri Lankan migrant workers stranded in Kuwait are scheduled to arrive in the country today.
The Foreign Employment Bureau has said that 113 migrant workers who were stranded in Kuwait would return to the country. Eight male workers are among the majority of female migrant workers who were stranded in KuwaitSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-52516993014364707762010-11-09T06:03:00.001-08:002010-11-09T06:03:16.075-08:00Sri Lanka housemaid file sent to Interior Ministry, another step towards executioner’s swordTue, 2010-11-02 07:28 — editor
Saudi Arabia
K.T.Rajasingham
Riyadh, 02 November, (Asiantribune.com):
The latest reports emerging from Riyadh reveals that the Riyadh Governorate has already referred to the Saudi Ministry of Interior for its observations and comments, the papers connected with the Saudi Supreme Court verdict confirming the death sentence on Sri Lanka housemaid Rizana Nafeek.
In SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-44426595952093551472010-10-26T23:19:00.001-07:002010-10-26T23:19:22.558-07:00Saudi Arabia: Stop Execution of Domestic WorkerDeath Penalty Upheld for Sri Lankan, Age 17 at Time of Alleged Killing
( New York , October 26, 2010) – King Abdullah and Interior Minister Prince Naif should halt the execution of Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan domestic worker convicted of killing a child in her care when she was 17, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi Arabia is one of only three countries worldwide known to have executed SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-59389107896804143752010-10-26T23:17:00.000-07:002010-10-26T23:17:21.786-07:00Rizana; the continuing saga of our timesDespite well argued cases by the United Nations, Amnesty International and a slew of other organizations the Saudi law has come in the way to block all the moves to save Rizana Nafeek.
Lawyers hold that chances are slim for President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s letter, calling clemency for Rizana, having a major impact on the outcome of the episode given the nature of the Saudi legal setup. However SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-46093823218214792812010-10-26T23:15:00.000-07:002010-10-26T23:15:36.883-07:00President writes to Saudi King-Daily News
SEEKS CLEMENCY FOR RIZANA :
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday wrote to King Abdullah bin Abdul Azeez of Saudi Arabia seeking clemency for Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek. Rizana has been sentenced to death for allegedly killing a Saudi infant in 2005.
A three-member panel of judges from the Dawathmy High Court headed by Chief Justice Abdullah Al-Rosaimi sentenced her to death.SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-83322169949322297792010-10-25T04:43:00.000-07:002010-10-25T04:43:23.211-07:00Data system to keep tab on migrant workersby Ananda Kannangara
The new Internet Networking System (INS) which was launched by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) will ensure the safety of over 1.3 million Sri Lankan migrant workers.
Chairman, SLBFE, Kingsley Ranawaka told the Sunday Observer that the INS will provide information on Sri Lankan workers employed overseas and it will also help to keep a track on each SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-43353826658264539522010-10-25T04:40:00.001-07:002010-10-25T04:40:34.774-07:00Rizana's death sentence confirmedThe Supreme Court in Riyadh has endorsed the death sentence given to a Sri Lankan maid who murdered a Saudi infant in 2005, sources from Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Ministry told Arab News.
A three-member panel of judges from the Dawadami High Court headed by Chief Justice Abdullah Al-Rosaimi found Rizana Nafeek guilty of murdering the four-month-old son of Naif Jiziyan Khalaf Al-Otaibi and SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-35712701231681904842010-10-19T04:51:00.000-07:002010-10-19T04:51:23.751-07:005 distressed Filipino workers in Saudi arrested for filing labor complaints against erring employerOctober 17th, 2010
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -The Kapatiran sa Gitnang Silangan (KGS), an affiliate organization of migrant rights group Migrante-Middle East in Saudi Arabia, today said it received request for assistance from fellow co-workers of the 5 distress OFWs who were detained in Riyadh jail yesterday by their erring employer.
Eric Jocson, Chairperson of KGS-Migrante, said the 5 SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-79964070158531671612010-10-12T00:13:00.000-07:002010-10-12T00:13:30.042-07:00Filipina maid inherits millions from Singaporean employerSINGAPORE, July 21, 2010 (AFP) - A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars (more than four million US) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, a newspaper report said Wednesday.
"I am the luckiest maid in Singapore, with or without the money," the 47-year-old single woman -- identified only by the pseudonym "Christine" -- told the Straits Times in an SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-44008593054850437082010-10-11T23:58:00.000-07:002010-10-11T23:58:15.469-07:00Lankan employees strike in Jordan called offTuesday, 12 October 2010
raj A Bandara
The Foreign Employment Bureau said that the strike started by Sri Lankan employees working at the Classic Fashion Garments factory in Jordan was called off and its Manger's service has been suspended by the Garment factory owners with immediate effect.
The strike started against the manager of the garment factory by the employees a few days ago. TheySANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-63941851074328001972010-10-11T23:55:00.001-07:002010-10-11T23:55:22.530-07:00Web-based system to nab errant job agentsSunday Observer - October 10, 2010
By Lalin FERNANDOPULLE
The Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) will launch a web-based system to nab errant job agents and minimise malpractices in the overseas employment sector, said Chairman, SLBFE, Kingsley Ranawaka.
He said the data system will be launched next month and it will help reduce malpractices and ill treatment of overseas workers.SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-58925104360541397022010-10-05T21:47:00.000-07:002010-10-05T21:47:36.357-07:00More jobs in QatarTue, 5 October, 2010 20:13:- Daily Mirror -
DOHA : Qatar is expected to attract more Sri Lankan job-seekers as the National Recruitment Committee in Saudi Arabia has said that it will refrain from signing further employment contracts with workers from the island nation. Recruitment agencies here expect many will turn to Doha , due to its huge job potential.
“We believe job-seekers might turn SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-79430352139962392602010-10-05T21:45:00.001-07:002010-10-05T21:45:48.904-07:00Saving the migrant workerOctober 4, 2010 @ 11:22 pm
SRI LANKA’S migrant workers seem to be caught between a rock and hard place following reports that the Saudi government has banned the recruitment of housemaids. Even though the Sri Lankan government has denied any such situation, the actual fallout is yet to be determined.
According to the Saudi Gazette the National Recruitment Committee in Saudi Arabia has calledSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-41737959980314952822010-09-30T22:40:00.001-07:002010-09-30T22:40:01.924-07:00Wage talks delay recruitment from Sri LankaBy SARA ABDULLAH | ARAB NEWS
Published: Oct 1, 2010 00:01 Updated: Oct 1, 2010 00:48
JEDDAH: Saudi sponsors seeking to recruit domestic help from Sri Lanka say they have suffered delays of nine months to a year, despite completing the application process and paying the fees.
“In March, I paid the fees and was told that according to the new regulations, I should only have to wait for 190 daysSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-63866651146203331192010-09-30T22:27:00.001-07:002010-09-30T22:27:41.589-07:00Maids in ME unprotected from abuseReforms insufficient: HRW
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 29, (AP): Reforms undertaken by governments in the Middle East to protect domestic workers from abuse are insufficient to shield women working as house maids from abuse and violence, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
Millions of mostly Asian women who work in countries like Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates remain at SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-22573295673239239952010-09-30T22:26:00.001-07:002010-09-30T22:26:57.887-07:00Indonesia wants guarantee for maids safety from 3 countries Kuwait keen on safeguarding rights of expat workersKUWAIT CITY, Sept 25: Indonesian Minister of Labor Muhaimin Iskandar recently instructed Indonesians planning to work as maids in Malaysia, Kuwait and Jordan to suspend the processing of their papers until the governments of these countries guarantee their safety, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
Iskandar issued the decision at a time when the domestic labor file is still pending at the Kuwaiti SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-83859406761119204852010-09-30T22:25:00.000-07:002010-09-30T22:25:56.550-07:00‘Labour’ seeks MoI views on UN rights panel suggestions on maids Proposal to strip nationality of ‘divorced’ women’s kidsKUWAIT CITY, July 18: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour has asked the Ministry of Interior to give its views on the recommendations issued by the UN Human Rights Committee, obliging Kuwait to abide by the international conventions to protect its domestic workers, and include them in the private sector labour law Number 6/2010, reports Al-Qabas daily.
In a letter to the Ministry of SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-30277816000106903392010-09-30T22:22:00.001-07:002010-09-30T22:22:26.176-07:00Filipina maids leave for home after sour sojourn Kuwait bears bill in goodwill gestureKUWAIT CITY, Sept 5: A group, comprising 97 Filipina household workers who have spent months of waiting while being sheltered at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) FWRC or Filipino Workers Resource Center at the Philippine Embassy in Jabriya were finally repatriated early Sunday back to their home country.
Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait, HE Shulan O Primavera went to the POLO premises SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-19236239757043488562010-09-28T02:00:00.000-07:002010-09-28T02:00:45.331-07:00Malaysian nod for Lankan domestic aidsThe Malaysian Human Resource Ministry has introduced restrictions on employing foreign maids as domestic servants. Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam said
Daily News
Malaysia can employ domestic servants from only seven countries inclusive of Sri Lanka .
Other countries are Laos , Myanmar , Cambodia , Thailand , India , and Philippines .
“Although maids from the Philippines have SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-18827254166126950512010-09-27T01:40:00.001-07:002010-09-27T01:40:29.335-07:00Kuwait to scrap sponsor system for workersFirst Published 2010-09-26
Kuwait to become second Gulf country to abolish much-criticised system sponsor after Bahrain.
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait will scrap the much-criticised sponsor system for foreign labour in February, the Al-Rai newspaper reported Sunday, becoming only the second Gulf country to abolish a practice that has been likened to slavery.
The paper quoted Minister of Social SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-85990320869075882942010-09-27T01:34:00.001-07:002010-09-27T01:34:18.253-07:00Sri Lankan housemaid's body to be flown home next weekSun, Sep 26, 2010, 12:04 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk , Sri Lanka .
Sept 25, Colombo: Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau has taken action to bring the body of a Sri Lankan housemaid in Qatar who committed suicide by burning herself after pouring petrol on her body.
The woman was believed to be heartbroken due to a broken relationship. She has reportedly attempted to commit suicide in SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-20767505209401592152010-09-27T01:31:00.001-07:002010-09-27T01:31:49.482-07:00Overstaying Sri Lankans in Saudi Arabia to get amnestyWed, Sep 22, 2010, 07:27 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka .
Sept 22, Colombo: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has granted an amnesty period of six months for the foreigners including Sri Lankans overstaying or illegally staying in the country to leave without fine or other punishment.
Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau says that this amnesty will be effective from September 25, 2010 SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-76241576783783264382010-09-21T04:05:00.000-07:002010-09-21T04:05:27.220-07:00Lankan to face firing squadA 23-year-old Sri Lankan man who stabbed his lover’s husband to death in a jealous rage is to face a firing squad in Dubai. Rowan Kumar, was convicted in April by the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance and sentenced to life imprisonment.
When the Daily Mirror inquired from the Consular Division of the Ministry of External affairs, a source explained that no official communication on the SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-7336607197021621402010-09-14T08:31:00.001-07:002010-09-14T08:31:20.179-07:00Interview with Yotam Politser, Human Rights Activist, on Challenges and Opportunities for Nepali Migrants in IsraelSeptember 14th
Israel Women Workers Working conditions
Migrant Rights caught up with Israeli human rights activist Yotam Politser in Kathmandu to learn more about the challenges that Nepali migrants face in Israel. Israel is an increasingly popular country among Nepali migrants seeking labour opportunities overseas, and is currently home to approximately 12,000 Nepalis, who mainly work in SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-19817628815478364442010-09-14T08:30:00.001-07:002010-09-14T08:30:02.212-07:00Labor Office gets several complaints of rules violationsNATION
By Zain Anbar
JEDDAH – The Labor Office received a number of complaints last week including two cases of mass terminations, one of which involved female workers at a factory, Qussay Filali, Director of the Labor Office in Jeddah, said.
In the termination cases, the parties will be summoned for questioning, an investigation will be conducted and measures will be taken against the SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-52076305500999025452010-09-13T21:58:00.000-07:002010-09-13T21:58:45.416-07:00Maids in UAE better off than other Gulf states - Lankan Envoydailynews
ONLINE
Number of complaints from Lankan maids has fallen:
Maids in the UAE are treated better than anywhere else in the Gulf, Sri Lanka's Consul-General in Dubai Wasantha Senanayake said.
He said the number of complaints they have received from its nationals working as maids in the country has drastically reduced. "I am not saying that there are no complaints what so ever. But itSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-19178863242602919572010-09-08T10:22:00.000-07:002010-09-08T10:22:03.981-07:00Sri Lanka: Anger Rises Over Torture Case, But Solution Unclear• by Feizal Samath (colombo)
The ordeal of a Sri Lankan domestic worker whose Saudi Arabian employer allegedly drove nails and metal wires into her body has sent alarm bells ringing among government officials and activists, but how such abuses can be stopped remain far from clear.
'This is a bit of a problem. Maybe we need to look at some new protective measures,' said Mangala Randeniya, deputySANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-86716510415827463102010-09-07T06:42:00.001-07:002010-09-07T06:42:59.280-07:00Only 3 men to look after 500,000 housemaids - Ranjanby Denagama Dhammika Ranaweera
UNP Ratnapura District MP Ranjan Ramanayake said there were only three males at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Saudi Arabia to look into the welfare of about 500,000 Sri Lankan housemaids employed in that country.
Ramanayake was in Matara yesterday to look into the progress of the work on the house being built for the Lankan housemaid L. P. Ariyawathi, who returned SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-68110197961302447142010-09-07T00:06:00.000-07:002010-09-07T00:06:03.378-07:00Where Is Justice For Aariyawathi?By M.S.Shah Jahan
The Saudi sponsor, who is over 60, suffers from heart conditions. The sponsor’s doctors have advised him to do only 25 percent of his normal work because of his weak heart. How can a person in such poor health be able to do a strenuous activity like hammering nails into a woman’s body”?.
This was the outburst of Saad Al-Baddah, Chairman of the Saudi Arabian National RecruitmentSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-69835279279530273782010-09-06T23:59:00.001-07:002010-09-06T23:59:40.007-07:00Maid and nails: Let’s find the truthBy ISMAEEL MARIKAR COLOMBO
Housemaids are always in the news.
Saudis need them and the Sri Lankan women would work for them because of their poverty.
This has been going on for years, encouraged by the government, since the government in Colombo too depends on their remittances in much needed dollars.
There have been several instances where housemaids have been abused, humiliated and SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-76010511875620937992010-08-29T23:57:00.000-07:002010-08-29T23:57:36.129-07:00Maid Torture report arrives in Kingdom -Daily Mirror
Maid torture report arrives in Kingdom
Monday, 30 August 2010 00:57
The Lankan Embassy received on Saturday the medical report regarding the housemaid L.T. Ariyawathi (49) who was found with 24 nails in her body allegedly driven in by Saudi employers. A video statement from her was also handed over to the Saudi Embassy in Colombo. “We have the report on the domestic aide,” SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-17416558452656360032010-08-29T23:54:00.001-07:002010-08-29T23:54:50.185-07:00FR case against state by migrant workerSunday Times
FR case against state by migrant worker
An aggrieved 51-year Sri Lankan migrant worker has filed probably the first-ever fundamental rights application demanding compensation from the state and the job agent for a botched job offer in Qatar .
In his application filed in the Supreme Court on Friday, the worker, H.M. Bandara of Balabowa, Dewalapola says he was duped into signing a SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-36988764878275629362010-08-29T23:52:00.001-07:002010-08-29T23:52:50.522-07:00Doha jobs: Embassy sets age limits for LankansSunday Times
By Leon Berenger
Foreign employment agencies were yesterday fuming over a new age limit for Lankan workers heading to take jobs in the state of Doha , saying it would ruin employment prospects there.
The Lankan Embassy in that country has stated that those taking up employment in Doha should be above the age of 25 and not exceed 45 years, creating fears among employers who SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-11205548235112225752010-08-29T23:50:00.001-07:002010-08-29T23:50:43.767-07:00Malaysia best for Lankan migrant workersDaily News
Indunil Hewage
Malaysia is the highly demand employment market in Asia for Sri Lankan skilled and semi-skilled migrant workers, Association of Licensed Foreign Employment Agencies, Chairman, W. M. P. Aponso said.
The demand for Sri Lankan skilled and semi-skilled workers in the Middle East and Asia has increased considerably.
Qatar, Korea and Malaysia are considered as the SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-8050190133231030112010-08-26T00:38:00.000-07:002010-08-26T00:38:12.946-07:00Govt. tries to get Saudi maid compensationDaily Mirror
How the airport X-Ray machines missed the nails, remains to be investigated
By Khrishan Jeewaka Jayaruk
Embassy of Sri Lanka in Saudi Arabia would lodge a complaint with the Saudi Arabian Police to arrest the employers of the Lankan house maid who had been tortured with nails, Foreign Employment Bureau sources said.
Authorities were trying to black list both the employer and SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-34864603636858462802010-08-26T00:35:00.001-07:002010-08-26T00:35:39.408-07:00Domestic workers get nod for Jordan jobsRasika SOMARATHNA
The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) yesterday said they would now allow local recruitment agents to send migrant domestic workers to Jordan as the Jordanian officials had agreed to pay the minimum stipulated salary of US $ 200 per month.
SLBFE Acting General Manager L K Ruhunuge said that the Bureau had been notified regarding a compromise in this regard SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-34638055124846744172010-08-26T00:33:00.001-07:002010-08-26T00:33:56.517-07:00Housemaid case to be reported to Saudi GovtDaily New
Shirley WIJESINGHE
Steps have been taken by the Government to report the matter to the Saudi Government in respect of the housemaid who had returned from Saudi Arabia with 23 nails inside her body, due to torture by her Saudi employer, Economic Development Deputy Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardane told the media yesterday.
Minister Abeywardane said the housemaid had never previouslySANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-32656571252660666232010-08-26T00:32:00.001-07:002010-08-26T00:32:21.056-07:00Sri Lanka to lift ban on domestic helper recruitmentBy Hani Hazaimeh
AMMAN - The Sri Lankan embassy on Tuesday agreed to lift a ban on sending domestic helpers to Jordan after a compromise was reached between the Sri Lankan government and Jordanian recruiters.
The ban, which was imposed last month over the non-payment of Sri Lankan domestic helpers’ salaries, was eased after the Domestic Helpers Recruitment Agencies Association (DHRAA) pledged SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-70899915465093345512010-08-26T00:29:00.000-07:002010-08-26T00:29:42.328-07:00state level action against maid tortureSLBFE seeks compensation:
State level action against maid torture
Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) General Manager H. Batagoda yesterday said they will take state level action against the Suadi Arabian employer who tortured a housemaid from Sri Lanka with iron nails. Batagoda said, the Bureau informed the Sri Lankan Emabassy in Riyadh and the Saudi Arabian embassy in the country SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-6865634983389569912010-08-26T00:27:00.000-07:002010-08-26T00:27:20.399-07:00No SLBFE nod for maids to JordanDaily News
Shirley Wijesinghe
The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) will discourage Sri Lankans being sent to Jordan as housemaids, Additional General Manager LK Ruhunage told the Daily News yesterday.
The Bureau arrived at this decision after being informed of a number of instances where housemaids were paid wages below US $ 200, he added. "The SLBFE will not grant permission SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-75309550785223931562010-08-26T00:25:00.000-07:002010-08-26T00:25:23.179-07:00Saudi employer nails Lankan housemaidDaily News
Suraj A. Bandara
A 56-year-old mother of three with 23 nails inside her body punched as punishments by her masters in Saudi Arabia has been hospitalized after returning to Sri Lanka .
Ordeal
*She went to Saudi a few months ago
*Work in an overcrowded house
* Doctors find 23 nails in her body
* Being treated at Kamburupitiya Hospital
She had gone to Saudi Arabia after SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-34463229849558413012010-08-26T00:23:00.001-07:002010-08-26T00:23:35.788-07:00Saudi action soughtSaudi authorities will be urged to take action against the culprits responsible for inserting 23 nails in a Sri Lankan maid, the Chairman of the Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) Kingsley Ranawake told Daily Mirror online.
Speaking to Daily Mirror online, Ranawake explained that a translated statement from the victim will be sent to the Saudi authorities through the Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry.
SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-61286851381555580562010-08-25T01:04:00.001-07:002010-08-25T01:04:12.933-07:00Saudi employer nails Lankan housemaidSuraj A. Bandara
A 56-year-old mother of three with 23 nails inside her body punched as punishments by her masters in Saudi Arabia has been hospitalized after returning to Sri Lanka .
Ordeal
*She went to Saudi a few months ago
*Work in an overcrowded house
* Doctors find 23 nails in her body
* Being treated at Kamburupitiya Hospital
She had gone to Saudi Arabia after being registered at theSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-14012061091859747532010-08-24T10:43:00.001-07:002010-08-24T10:43:27.015-07:00Human Rights In Saudi ArabiaCorporal and capital punishment; right to representation
Further information: Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is one of around thirty countries in the world with judicial corporal punishment. In Saudi Arabia's case this includes amputations of hands and feet for robbery, and flogging for lesser crimes such as "sexual deviance" and drunkenness. The number of lashes is not clearly SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-55029719117576443022010-08-24T10:24:00.001-07:002010-08-24T10:24:09.310-07:00150 runaway Sri Lankans to be deported this weekBy MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 16, 2010 00:36 Updated: Aug 16, 2010 00:36
RIYADH: More than 150 Sri Lankan workers who have been residing illegally in the Makkah province after escaping from their employers are to be deported this week.
“The workers include 70 male and 80 female domestic servants who have run away from their employers,” Sabarullah Khan, Sri Lankan consul general inSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-91393454169173897202010-08-24T10:23:00.005-07:002010-08-24T10:23:41.051-07:00Law and You - 19Published: Jul 30, 2010 23:53 Updated: Aug 14, 2010 00:35
My husband has been working here for the last three years. I came to Saudi Arabia in 2008 on a family visa. But soon after my arrival my husband’s sponsor declared him to be an absconding worker. Shortly after my husband had a mental breakdown and doctors advised him to return home for treatment. However, because of the action of his SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-46956764772771725222010-08-24T10:23:00.001-07:002010-08-24T10:23:04.371-07:00NSHR official details difficulties with complaintsBy MUHAMMAD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 14, 2010 23:42 Updated: Aug 14, 2010 23:42
JEDDAH: One of the major difficulties faced by the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) while dealing with complaints from aggrieved persons is the lack of documents to support their claims, said the director of the Makkah branch of the NSHR, Hassan Al-Sharif, while giving a lecture titled “Trading inSANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-55635091008992567752010-08-24T10:22:00.003-07:002010-08-24T10:22:25.203-07:00Arab Human Rights Committee urge members to send human rights reportsBy WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 16, 2010 01:09 Updated: Aug 16, 2010 01:09
The Arab Human Rights Committee has urged member states to report back to them on how they are tackling human rights.
The committee is particularly focusing on those who signed the Arab convention on human rights.
During its seventh meeting, held under the leadership of chairman Dr. Ibrahim Al-Awadi at its SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-51911793588345888552010-08-24T10:22:00.001-07:002010-08-24T10:22:03.581-07:00New labor minister to learn by listeningBy MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 21, 2010 00:22 Updated: Aug 21, 2010 00:22
JEDDAH: Newly appointed Labor Minister Adel Fakieh, who stepped down this past week from his position as Jeddah mayor, told Arab News on Friday he would spend some time learning and meeting with experts to help him achieve the goals of his ministry.
"I will seek the help of the people with long experience but SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-64137504731309449112010-08-24T10:21:00.001-07:002010-08-24T10:21:34.881-07:00Complaint filed against comatose OFW’s employerBy RODOLFO ESTIMO JR. | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 21, 2010 00:19 Updated: Aug 21, 2010 00:19
JEDDAH: The Philippine Consulate General has filed a complaint against an employer for failing to repatriate a Filipino worker who has been in a vegetative state for nearly five years.
The consulate has voiced its concerns to the Human Rights Commission’s office in Riyadh over Atif Kurdi’s treatment of SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-62501656345732239592010-08-22T23:34:00.001-07:002010-08-22T23:34:52.210-07:00Sri Lankan maids without valid visas in Lebanon return to countryColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka .
Aug 21, Colombo : Sri Lankan maids who were working in Lebanon without valid visas have returned to the country today (21) using the amnesty period offered by Lebanon .
Sri Lankan Ambassador to Lebanon M. Maharoof has been quoted in the local media saying that several Sri Lankans who made use of the amnesty period had left for Sri Lanka yesterday (20) after SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-13471773343894223302010-08-18T21:55:00.001-07:002010-08-18T21:55:01.081-07:00UN praises Canada's handling of migrantsNews Toronto & GTA
The UN is giving Canada the thumbs up for its handling of a boatload of 490 Tamil migrants who were smuggled into the country off the coast of B.C. last week.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees on Tuesday praised Canada for accepting the third largest amount of Tamil refugees of all the wealthy countries.
The UNHCR in a press briefing in Switzerland said the SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-12649449095423904762010-08-18T05:01:00.001-07:002010-08-18T05:01:33.124-07:00saudi maids strandedBy Indika Sri Aravinda
Over 300 housemaids are stranded at the Olaya camp in Saudi Arabia and among them are those who faced abuse and other forms of rape, UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayaka told reporters in Colombo today.
The families of those stranded at the Saudi camp also attended the press briefing today and sought assistance from the government. (Daily Mirror online)SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-86418608774423413092010-08-18T04:59:00.000-07:002010-08-18T04:59:13.269-07:00Abuse maid gets back her passportBahrain
By S.H.Moulana - Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
Manama, 18 August, (Asiantribune.com):
An Indian housemaid who fled her employer's home covered in bruises had her passport and thyroid medication returned to her yesterday - along with 45 days of unpaid salary.
Salma Begum had been without her passport and other personal belongings since fleeing the home of her Bahraini boss on August 3, SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-33071374685788105672010-08-11T02:00:00.000-07:002010-08-11T02:00:56.876-07:00Lanka gets toughThe Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau says that they have decided not to send domestic workers to Jordan if the domestic workers are to receive a pay less than 200 US Dollars.
According to the bureau the Jordan recruitment agency has informed the Foreign Employment Bureau that they are ready to provide a salary less than 200 US Dollars.
The Additional General Manager of the bureau L.K. SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-15884124200291583092010-08-09T04:35:00.005-07:002010-08-09T04:35:49.913-07:00Ministry shuts 5 maids officesThe Ministry of Interior announced the closure of five domestic servant offices for violating the amended law on domestic workers, and revoked the licenses of four domestic workers procurement companies for failing to show up to defend themselves from the accusations and complaints of citizens, reports Alam-Alyawm daily.
Sources said the ministry is determined to enforce rules and regulations SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-76121116765027600842010-08-09T04:35:00.003-07:002010-08-09T04:35:16.938-07:00Filipina maid inherits millions from Singaporean employerSINGAPORE, July 21, 2010 (AFP) - A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars (more than four million US) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, a newspaper report said Wednesday.
"I am the luckiest maid in Singapore, with or without the money," the 47-year-old single woman -- identified only by the pseudonym "Christine" -- told the Straits Times in an SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-46867729982901651802010-08-09T04:34:00.001-07:002010-08-09T04:34:18.582-07:00Two maids accused of stealing valuables worth KD 12,800KUWAIT CITY, Aug 6: A member of the teaching staff of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training has filed a complaint with the police accusing his two housemaids of stealing goods worth KD 12,800 including two laptops, reports Al-Rai daily.
Other stolen items, he said, include KD 3,000 in cash, jewelry worth KD 2,800, two watches believed to be valued at KD 2,000 each and books SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-56736886407504969172010-08-09T04:20:00.000-07:002010-08-09T04:20:20.102-07:00SLBFE delists eleven job agenciesSunday Observer
by Ananda KANNANGARA
The newly formed Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) last week cancelled eleven job agencies that operated under different names at many parts of the country.
In addition, the Bureau investigation teams had also cracked down 59 illegal foreign job recruitment agencies during the first six months SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-16080780966386866842010-08-09T04:18:00.000-07:002010-08-09T04:18:42.524-07:00Over 300 Lankans in Saudi jailColombo Page - August 5, 2010
Workers say many are physically and sexually abused in Saudi Arabia
Nearly 350 Sri Lankan housemaids are in a jail in Saudi Arabia waiting for the help of authorities to go home, a Sri Lankan worker said.
The housemaids, most of whom have fled their masters in Saudi Arabia as a result of physical and sexual abuse, the worker told BBC Sandeshaya from Olaya SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-39858186523303293162010-08-09T04:16:00.001-07:002010-08-09T04:16:54.296-07:00FEB brings back stranded housemaidsDaily News - 5th August 2010
Suraj A. Bandara
The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) stated that seven Sri Lankan housemaids who were ill and stranded in a hostel in Riyadh were returned to Sri Lanka yesterday.
Around 45 housemaids are with the Job agency till they are found jobs as promised by the agency. They are stranded in a hostel in Riyadh .
The Sri Lankan Embassy in Riyadh SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-80383397646763942182010-08-02T02:42:00.000-07:002010-08-02T02:42:06.098-07:00Lankan women stranded in RiyadhMD Rasooldeen
*Forty one women not given assigned jobs
*Six women fall sick
Forty-one Sri Lankan workers, all of them women, have been stranded in Riyadh since March because they were not given their assigned jobs by their local sponsor. “The local agent in Colombo recruited the workers for a cleaning company, which is unable to deploy the workers since it has a dispute with the concerned SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-49479026467291837022010-08-02T02:38:00.000-07:002010-08-02T02:38:32.176-07:0044,000 Sri Lankans move to Qatar for jobs in a yearQatar received more than 44,000 workers from Sri Lanka last year, according to a report posted in a Sri-Lanka-based website.
The website, The Migrant News, quoting officials of Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment, reported that about 44,000 Sri Lankans reached Qatar for taking up employment in 2009. “This constituted about 18% of the total outflow of workers from Sri Lanka,” it said.
In the SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-33805724296718801752010-07-28T23:11:00.001-07:002010-07-28T23:11:47.531-07:00After murder, more protections for foreign bridesA group of migrant women by marriage stages a protest rally yesterday in front of the National Human Rights Commission in Seoul. [YONHAP]
Koreans trying to wed foreigners will have to take prior education courses about international marriages, and those who fail to attend will be denied visas for their brides, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced Tuesday.
The measure was the SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-9333976964693360202010-07-28T22:52:00.000-07:002010-07-28T22:52:46.689-07:00Bogus job agencies bustedLakshmi DE SILVA
The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) special investigation unit had raided five more bogus job recruitment agencies last week and filed action against the suspects. During the last two weeks, the SLBFE had taken action against 10 illegal recruitment agencies, an SLBFE official told the Daily News yesterday.
Daily News
The raids were carried out on the SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-18458802903153002732010-07-28T22:50:00.000-07:002010-07-28T22:50:48.842-07:0041 women suffering in Saudi - Arabia -No response from authoritiesIt is reported that 41 Sri Lankan women are going through immeasurable suffering in Saudi-Arabia. Despite Sri Lankan Embassy in Saudi-Arabia, the Department of Immigration and Emigration in Sri Lanka have been informed about this issue, no remediable action has been taken yet.
Though ten women have fallen sick already they have not been granted any medical treatment yet say reports.
The SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-41003152349134626522010-07-22T05:12:00.001-07:002010-07-22T05:12:31.475-07:00TWO LANKAN WOMEN DIE IN JORDAN , LEBANONJuly 22, 2010: Two Lankan women have died in Jordan and in Lebanon .
According to the Foreign Employment Bureau, one woman who had been employed in Jordan had committed suicide by setting herself on fire.
The deceased was 35-year-old resident of Horowpathana.
The Additional General Manager of the Bureau L. K. Ruhunage disclosed that an investigation carried out by the Sri Lankan embassy in SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-85149909138555899772010-07-22T00:21:00.001-07:002010-07-22T00:21:29.223-07:00Filipina maid inherits millions from Singaporean employerJuly 21, 2010 (AFP) - A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars (more than four million US) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, a newspaper report said Wednesday.
"I am the luckiest maid in Singapore, with or without the money," the 47-year-old single woman -- identified only by the pseudonym "Christine" -- told the Straits Times in an interview.
The SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-61980588666638578892010-07-19T22:17:00.001-07:002010-07-19T22:17:53.231-07:00Firm owners have to pay employees even if business was shut down MoI closes 10 domestic workers recruiting officesKUWAIT CITY, July 19: Undersecretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Mohammad Al-Kandari affirmed that the new labor law for private sector obliges owners of commercial establishments and private companies to pay salaries to their employees even for the period when the business was shut down, if it is proved that the establishment was intentionally shut to oblige employees to submit SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-43581523266136171252010-07-19T22:15:00.001-07:002010-07-19T22:15:48.689-07:00Migrants workers collateral damage of UAE slumpSHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, July 20 (Reuters) - Under an unforgiving sun, South Asian workers stir giant pots of rice, their only food, in a barren patch of desert 80 km from a gleaming Dubai skyline built over decades by migrant labour.
Abandoned by employers who left the United Arab Emirates after the Dubai economy soured, the men cannot afford to stay, but they also cannot leave. They have SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-73030126563861488802010-07-19T02:22:00.001-07:002010-07-19T02:22:52.776-07:00Two Filipinas killed in Kuwait this weekTwo Filipinas were killed in Kuwait this week, one by her husband and the other by her employers.
The Egyptian husband has reportedly stabbed his Filipina wife 31 times at a women’s salon in front of shocked colleagues and clients.
The killer fled from the scene after the murder, leaving the victim in a pool of blood, as securitymen and paramedics rushed to the salon in Jabriya, witnesses said. SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-30719077294379783742010-07-19T02:21:00.000-07:002010-07-19T02:21:21.404-07:00Racism against Migrants is the Norm in OmanOman Racism
No where in the world racism is still openly embraced like it is in the Gulf of Persia (did I say Persia?), well, other than Israel. The most amazing part about the way people deal with their racism here is that they have no idea it is racism in the first place!
In a very enlightening debate I had with a couple of managers a while ago, I was stunned to see how smooth it was for them SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-46602509801576278122010-07-15T23:24:00.001-07:002010-07-15T23:24:12.869-07:00Domestic worker 'enslaved' in Kuwait for 13 yearsKUWAIT: She only dreamt of buying a new home for her mother. However, it remained just that - a dream. Instead of earning a cozy job, good salary and savings she fell into the clutches of a cruel and merciless employer for over 13 years without pay. Fifty seven year old Kamalawathie Katawala has been working for her sponsor since 1997. (Kuwait Times had reported yesterday that she worked for 17 SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339239734906215715.post-62922228589456440782010-07-15T23:22:00.001-07:002010-07-15T23:22:37.301-07:00STEPS TAKEN TO BRING DOWN BODY OF LANKAN FROM UGANDAJuly 15, 2010: Steps have been taken to bring down the body of the Sri Lankan national who was killed in a bomb blast in the Ugandan capital Kampala recently.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the Sri Lankan ambassador to Kenya has been given the necessary instructions in this regard.
The ministry said that it could take several days to bring down the body.
It was on the 11th of SANRIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479584487208499029noreply@blogger.com0