e-platform to provide expats legal security launching soon – Project to use social media apps
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KUWAIT CITY, March 17: Chairman of the Board of Kuwait Society for Human Rights Lawyer Khalid Al-Ajmi affirmed that the society will soon launch a project titled ‘Together… to inform expatriates their rights’, reports Al-Anba daily.
He explained that this project will have the first electronic platform in the Gulf region for protecting expatriates and providing them with legal security. This e-platform will confront any problems faced by expatriates through different methods such as providing legal consultations and documenting incidents that are reported periodically.
Al-Ajmi indicated that there will be a hotline for receiving complaints, revealing that the biggest problems expatriates face include many of them do not have access to the translated copy of the labor law in their respective languages, there are no legal consultants who can speak their languages and there are no translators to receive their complaints.
He said the project will use the common applications of social media such as WhatsApp and Viber, revealing that the expatriates working in the country face several work-related problems such as being employed in positions that are not specified in their work permits, receiving lower salaries than what is mentioned in their contracts and their sponsors holding back their passports and preventing them from travelling.
Recent statistics of the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) indicates the Kuwaiti male population almost certainly surpasses the figure of the female counterpart. Several experts have since presented their viewpoints regarding the issue and unanimously agreed that recent use of advanced medical techniques to determine the gender of fetus is contributing to high male population rate.
Others warded off the case as a temporary issue, which is common among the youth and rare with the older generation.
They stressed that women naturally live longer than men, and the rate at which men perish in traffic accidents contribute to reduce their lifespan. Statistics showed the population of Kuwaiti male aged 1 to 24 stood at 369.992 (50.8 percent) as of last December, and for the first time, the figure of females in the same category was 357.377.
Regardless the male population is greater than female population, the total number of women (666.323) exceeds the number of men (641.282). The obvious change in population among the two groups prompts many people to ask about the so-called ‘blue box tablet’, whether or not it has made positive impact and the religious opinion in that concern. What will become of the future if all families used the option?
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