This 111-page report documents abuses against domestic workers and the failure of Jordanian officials to hold employers and the agents who recruited the workers accountable. The report also criticizes Jordanian immigration and domestic work labor laws for facilitating abuse, such as confinement in the home and imposing fines for overstaying the legal residency period, even where the worker is not at fault. Many of the 70,000 migrant domestic workers from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Philippines now living in Jordan face the same abuses as migrant domestic workers elsewhere in the region. These include beatings, confiscation of passports, confinement to the house, insults, non-payment of salaries, and overlong working hours with no days off.
This 26-page report reviews conditions in eight countries with large numbers of migrant domestic workers: Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Singapore, and Malay...
This report, published by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) at its 40th anniversary, summarizes the work ESCWA has done on regional issues such promoting inclusive human deve...
This report aimed to show the most significant human rights problems in Jordan, which were: mistreatment and allegations of torture by security and government officials with impunity, and restrictions...
The advocacy and awareness campaign was implemented between February and October 2016 targeting and working with many stakeholder groups including government, media, youth and the general public. All ...