Topic - Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch said in a report last year that foreign migrant workers face labor rights abuses and exploitation through exorbitant debts owed to recruitment agents, non-payment of wages, restrictions on movement, confiscation of passports, and sometimes physical and sexual violence.

Pope Francis praises Singapore's economy but asks that the lowest migrant workers not be forgotten →

As part of a policy to contain migration, authorities in Cyprus have physically pushed Syrian refugees back to Lebanon, and Lebanese security agencies have deported them, the Human Rights Watch report said.

Lebanon and Cyprus violated refugees' human rights and EU funds paid for it, rights group alleges →