Live testimonies
We are a group
of Egyptian workers who work in constructions,
every 10 of us live together in a “Caravan”, and
there are only 2 bathrooms in the site for the
use of 50 workers.
*Egyptian worker (Male )
I worked for
two years in a house, and my employer did not
pay me, and whenever I asked him for it, he
answers me that he will pay me the whole amount
when I finish he two years. And when the two
years were over, he sent me back to the
recruitment agency and didn't pay me anything.
Female Arababa ,
*
Sri Lankan domestic worker
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The protection of
migrants is an urgent and growing human rights
challenge. As strangers to a society, migrants
are frequently unfamiliar with the national
language, laws and practice, and may lack social
networks to rely on, making them less able than
others to know and assert their rights and more
vulnerable to human rights violations.
Jordan had ratified major human and labour rights
conventions, including those of the International
Labour Organization. In fact, the national law is
based on these international standards,
see standards
Jordan hosts high
concentrations of migrant workers, according to
statistics obtained from the Ministry of Labour in
2009 migrant workers constitute around 24% of the
total work force in Jordan.
Tamkeen , with the support of
Open Society
Foundation and the
Foundation for the Future, started its Migrant
Workers Program in early 2009 with an aim to improve
migrant workers’ working conditions and rights to
decent and safe working environments.
Through this program,
Tamkeen seeks to;
1. Promote and protect migrant workers' rights in
Jordan and empower migrant community leaders to
participate in advocacy efforts
2. Support migrant workers’ own involvement in
advocacy and outreach work
3. Integrate migrant concerns within social change
agendas
4. Monitor migrant workers situation in Jordan
5. Provide legal aid, advice and representation for
victims
6. Provide legal practitioners with professional
development and capacity building training
7. Raise awareness among employers, recruitment
agencies and general public.
Serving Migrant Workers
Tamkeen's team receive
complaints from migrant workers from different
nationalities and working in different sectors,
major violations of rights against migrants include
but not limited to; withholding personal documents
such as passports, forced labour, low wages and
non-payment of wages, long working hours, physical
abuse and restriction on movements, in addition to
denial of access to fundamental economic and social
rights such as the right to health and freedom of
association.
Prosecution
See recent Statistics
Through Tamkeen legal
aid we look to identify victims of forced labor and
forced prostitution and to ensure protection
services for the victims of exploitation, resolve
their cases either through litigation or
reconciliation efforts with parties concerned. In
most cases, we seek justice for victims by resorting
to litigation and filing lawsuits against offenders.
In the organization's first 10 months alone, Tamkeen
received more than 200 complaints of forced labor in
different sectors from Egyptian, Sri Lankan, Indian,
Pakistani and Syrian workers. |
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Quick Facts:
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The
International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted
numerous human rights conventions on
non-discrimination, forced labour, child labour,
freedom of association, and collective bargaining,
and indigenous and tribal populations.
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