The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has banned gays and tomboys from its public schools, a report on the news site Emirates 24/7 said.

An overseas Filipino worker has been saved from the death row in Saudi Arabia after a family of a slain Saudi national accepted blood money, a migrant workers’ rights group announced Thursday.

The nongovernment group Human Rights Watch said the Saudi Labor Ministry’s proposal to abolish the employer-based sponsorship system is a positive step for migrant workers.

If it were up to Saudi Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz, a journalist based in London, she would change a few things in Saudi Arabia and grant greater rights to women.

WHILE already having the most number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) also has a high number of undocumented OFWs.

An overseas Filipino worker needs government assistance after being electrocuted at work late last year in Saudi Arabia, a militant OFW group said Sunday.

At least 19 undocumented overseas Filipino workers were arrested in a raid in the Dammam area last March 30, militant migrant worker group Migrante said on Good Friday.

Efforts to raise at least SR1.5 million (P17.17 million) to secure the release of a Filipino on Death Row in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are underway.

MIGRANTS’ rights group Migrante yesterday urged the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to compel a recruitment agency to help locate the overseas Filipino worker it deployed to Saudi Arabia who has been missing for several months now.

A Qatar-based overseas Filipino worker (OFW) and his family lost their passports and other belongings while staying with a relative in Riyadh after performing the Umrah or pilgrimage to Mecca.