Domestic servitude Archives - Page 5 of 7

Migrants risk all to cross from Mexico to the US

7/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Mexico, Migration, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

Human smuggling is a boom business according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, with the profits in the billions (over $32 billion in 2005). Caritas Internationalis says that while every country has the right to regulate immigration, restrictive measures are simply encouraging people to resort to more dangerous and expensive channels of migration.

U-turn Ukraine: There’s no place like home

27/02/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Europe, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Ukraine by Caritas Communications

Oxana had left Ukraine to join her husband. He had gone to Brussels to look for work after being made redundant and with the lack of job opportunities at home.

Time to free Rizana Nafeek

15/09/2011 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration by Caritas Communications

Campaigners are hoping that the plight of Sri Lankan death row housemaid Rizana Nafeek could end soon with her release from a Saudi Arabian prison and her return home. Rizana Nafeek was sentenced in 2007 to beheading for strangling a baby she was looking after as a nanny in 2005. Rizana was just a minor ...

American dream ends in mass graves for migrants heading north

11/07/2011 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Mexico, Migration, Panama, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Fr. Francisco Gallardo, director of the Caritas migrant house at Matamoros, near Mexico’s border with the USA. People leave their homes in search of the “American dream” but they end up coming to us looking for lodging, clothes and help. Many of them arrive completely exhausted. There are people who’ve been kidnapped and who ...

Migration conference in Senegal

7/07/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Mali, Migration, Refugees, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

In Tinzawaten there’s next to nothing to eat or drink, the houses are roofless shells, it’s freezing at night, scorching in the day, murder and rape go unpunished, women are sold as slaves and babies are born in the open. This is the desert of Mali. The people of Tinzawaten are migrants who’ve been deported ...

The female face of migration

7/07/2011 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration by Caritas Communications

The Sister* from Caritas Sri Lanka searches for the women migrant workers who’ve returned home abused and traumatised, their dream of saving a nest egg for their families shattered. Chandrangani Gunathilaka’s story is one of the worst the Sister has heard. Chandrangani went to Kuwait as a maid in January 2010, paying agents over $200, ...

Decent work conditions for domestic workers

30/05/2011 Domestic servitude, Migration, News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis calls on the International Labour Conference (1-17 June, Geneva) to create legal protection for domestic workers by adopting the “Decent work for domestic workers” Convention and Recommendation. Caritas statement to the ILC Caritas has been advocating for legal rights for domestic migrant workers with its “Under one roof, under one law” campaign. Migrant ...

Migrants blocked in camps at Libyan borders eager to go home

8/04/2011 Conflicts and Disasters, Domestic servitude, Egypt, Emergencies, Labor exploitation, Libya, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Tunisia by Caritas Communications

Many migrant workers from Bangladesh had been living in Libya for a long time, often for several years. Most of them were employed in the construction sector, in the capital Tripoli but also in Brak, Misurata or Nalut.

Migration: weighing up the options

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Communications

They cross deserts in Mexico and they take to rough seas in unsafe boats in North Africa. They risk alienation, rejection and poverty far from home to create a better life for themselves and for their families. Many of the world’s migrants do this because there’s no better alternative. “History has shown us that people ...

No domestic bliss for migrants in Lebanon

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration by Caritas Communications

Aneesa*, 23, arrived in Lebanon during the 2006 war with Israel. She left her home in the Philippines to become a domestic worker with a family. With battles being fought on the streets of Beirut, Aneesa was very afraid and wanted to go back home after just two weeks. It was too difficult to leave so ...