Saudi Gazette | 15 February 2019 JEDDAH — More than 2,500 work visas issued to Saudi families to recruit housemaids from Uganda are on hold after the country’s government stopped sending domestic workers to the Kingdom about 45 days ago citing a number of reasons, according to sources in local manpower recruitment agencies. The sources, […]
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Uganda Christian News | 11 September 2018 Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development Permanent Secretary, Mr Pius Bigirimana has told journalists that government is investigating reports that Ugandan women seeking employment as domestic workers in Oman, are being trafficked and sold as slaves. Human Rights Watch explained in a 68-page report released 2016 that
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By: John Agaba New Vision Uganda | 13 October 2017 Janat Mukwaya and Ambassador Abdullah Fahad Al Qahtani shake hands after launching an online system that will be used in monitoring Ugandan workers in Saudi Arabia. Photo by Ramadhan Abbey Saudi Arabia has eased process for exportation of Ugandan workers after Ambassador Abdullah Fahd Al
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20 December 2015, Arab News JEDDAH: Work on the electronic system for recruiting domestic workers in Uganda has been completed and the recruitment process will start in the next few days, Rashid bin Yahya Symodo, the country’s ambassador has said. “The agreement between the two countries stipulates that the recruiting process should maintain the rights
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17 February 2015, New Vision KAMPALA – The Ugandan ministry of gender, labour and social development has released a list (at bottom of page) of only 25 licensed private overseas recruitment companies in Uganda. The companies complied with the requirements of externalization of labour, most of which is to countries in the Middle East, according
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Robert Benzie, Toronto Star, 16 July 2014 Labour Minister Kevin Flynn revives Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act that would clamp down on employers and employment agencies who violate workers’ rights. Lilliane Namukasa knows what it’s like to be a vulnerable worker. So the 27-year-old, who arrived from Uganda in 2008 to work as
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