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Thai agricultural workers in Israel will be at greater risk of labour abuses under a new partnership between the governments, advocates said, voicing concerns that the United Nations migration agency (IOM) would no longer...
Thailand has summoned the Egyptian ambassador after an Egyptian military crew member left a hotel where he was supposed to be self-isolating and later tested positive for COVID-19. Spokesman...
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July 14, 2020 |
Amelia Smith On February 8 2017, Areej and Ashwaq Hamoud packed their belongings and left the house where they grew up in Saudi Arabia to board a plane to what they...
An Israeli convict who was sentenced in 2018 to four years in prison in Thailand for operating an illegal medical clinic, returned to Israel this morning to serve the...
Tackling female genital mutilation (FGM) should be made a global priority like HIV/AIDs, according to campaigners concerned about the growing evidence that the abusive practice was more widespread than...
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UN During their stay in Georgia, two Saudi sisters sought help, after running away from their family in Saudi Arabia, in the latest escape case from the Kingdom. The two...
The number of women fleeing Saudi as a result of the oppression practice against them by their families is on the increase, Masr Al-Arabia reported yesterday. The news site...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Friday defended world soccer's governing body over its perceived lack of action in the case of refugee Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al Araibi, saying it...
A refugee Bahraini footballer with residency status in Australia boarded a flight for Melbourne early on Tuesday after Bahrain dropped its bid to have him extradited from Thailand, bringing...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday said that he was "disturbed" to see Bahraini refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi in shackles in Thailand, adding that he told the Thai prime...
Jailed Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al Araibi, who fled political upheaval in the Middle East nation and has refugee status in Australia, will spend at least two more months in...
The wife of Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al-Oraibi has appealed to Thailand's prime minister not to deport her husband to Bahrain where she says he will be tortured and possibly...