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October 10, 2017 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission to the CEDAW Committee of Kuwait’s Periodic Report for the 68th Session

August 24, 2017 News Release

Qatar: New Law Gives Domestic Workers Labor Rights

Needs Enforcement Mechanisms

A female employer and her children are accompanied by their domestic worker, back right, as they walk through The Avenues, an indoor luxury shopping center in Kuwait City.
August 3, 2017 Commentary

For Qatar the Gulf Crisis is a Human Rights Opportunity

By reforming its nationality law, ratifying the Refugee Convention and joining the ICC, Qatar can become a model state in the region - and protect itself from attack

A road sign is seen near Abu Samra border crossing to Saudi Arabia, Qatar June 12, 2017.
June 16, 2017 Commentary

Gulf States’ Slow March Toward Domestic Workers’ Rights

Illustration of a domestic worker exploited in Oman.
May 24, 2017 Letter

Human Rights Watch submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concerning Malaysia

April 3, 2017 Dispatches

Ethiopian Worker Survives Fall From Kuwait Building

Video Shows Moment That Domestic Worker Screams for Help, Falls

A female employer and her children are accompanied by their domestic worker, back right, as they walk through The Avenues, an indoor luxury shopping center in Kuwait City.
January 30, 2017 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission to the CEDAW Committee of Oman’s Periodic Report Pre-Sessional Working Group for the 68th Session

January 25, 2017 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission to the CEDAW Committee of Kuwait’s Periodic Report Pre-Sessional Working Group for the 68th Session

December 22, 2016 News Release

UAE: Extend Labor Law to Domestic Workers

Change in Supervision Will Improve Protection

December 13, 2016 Dispatches

Lebanon Deports Domestic Worker Rights Organizer

Crackdown on Activists Undermines Fight for Rights

Sujana Rana being deported to Nepal from Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport.
December 8, 2016 News Release

Bangladesh: Improve Protections for Migrant Domestic Workers

Show Leadership on Migrant Worker Protections during International Forum

A migrant domestic worker watches over a child playing in the Magic Planet, City Centre Muscat, a shopping mall in Oman.
October 14, 2016 Commentary

Trafficked and Trapped in Oman

A migrant domestic worker watches over a child playing in the Magic Planet, City Centre Muscat, a shopping mall in Oman.
September 30, 2016 Letter

Letter to His Excellency Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah

August 1, 2016 News Release

Morocco: New Law Advances Domestic Workers’ Rights

Key Protections, but Significant Gaps Remain

MENA Morocco Domestic worker
July 13, 2016 News Release

Oman: Domestic Workers Trafficked, Trapped

Reform System, Laws to Protect Migrant Women

A migrant domestic worker watches over a child playing in the Magic Planet, City Centre Muscat, a shopping mall in Oman.

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