Hubertson is currently a Middle East Policy Advisor with Migrant Forum in Asia, and focuses on an array of issues including prisoner’s rights, human rights violations by the police, religious minority rights, and employing migrant labour. He engages with foreign prisoners, politicians and government authorities, and victims of violence.
Hubertson participated in three of DTP’s Migrant Workers programs in the Middle East. He reflects on the several networks he has established with various human rights NGOs and the Indian National Human Rights Commission, which have helped him share information, and deal with cases related to the protection of migrant workers’ rights.
“I have been working on labour concerns around domestic workers, recruitment agencies, and foreign sponsors exploiting migrants in the Middle-East. I assist migrants in filing complaints against those exploiting them, then find remedies to protect their rights. I take cases to the Supreme Court, the Labour Office and Labour Courts.
The program has taught me how to design a petition on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to distribute and to engage with the Committee on Migrant Workers, and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. I am better equipped to present at international meetings. I have worked closely with trade unions and shared my knowledge on how to employ the UN mechanisms to help reduce the vulnerability of migrant workers to forced labour.”
