“Pay the worker his wage before his sweat dries”

Guess what this image is…

A Sri Lankan maid whose Saudi employer allegedly hammered 23 nails into her arms, legs and forehead is set to undergo surgery Friday, while government officials meet with Saudi diplomats in Colombo over the incident.

Palestinians Are Not Alone

For all the talk of blogs being the new paradigm, I feel the Achilles’ heel of the platform is that it is inherently reactive. A very small percentage of what blogs do can be considered original content and they tend to simply comment on the news stories of the day (the touching posts of Mohammed [...]

Filipina Workers in Jordan Update

In a new Jordan Times article, Hani Hazaimeh reports again that According to DHAA officials, the complaints included ill-treatment by employers and being overworked, said Faouri, who believes the workers’ reasons for wanting to leave their posts were homesickness and cultural differences between Jordan and the Philippines. The Jordan Times still fails to mention the [...]

Philippine Government Finally Stands Up!

I was surprised and pleased to read this in the Jordan Times on Wednesday. The Philippine government has apparently said it will not approve any more work contracts for its citizens in Jordan, where a large number of Filipina women work as domestic helpers. Domestic workers in Jordan are mainly from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and [...]

Protocol of Zion XXV: Blogger Infiltration

I guess it’s finally time to come clean about who Quiqui really is. We tried to keep this shit under wraps cause its like one of those awkward things where everyone knows what the deal is, but everyone’s too freaked out to say it out loud – cause that would make it too fucking real. [...]

Walls of Shame

Check out Al-Jazeera, English’s six-part series on geo-political walls. It covers US-Mexico, Morocco-Spain, and Israel-Palestine.

Two steps forward, three steps back

As I wrote about recently, there have been some positive, albeit tentative, movement in regards to the rights of migrant workers in Gulf State. I was even more encouraged when i found an article about a public awareness campaign in Saudi asking them to “be nice to your maid“. However, as I read further in [...]