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Civic enforcement is a form of law enforcement which does not go through the court or official enforcement bodies. It includes shaming employers and job brokers who violate worker rights, and exposing employers who have been fined or charged for labour law violations. Its aim is to empower workers and encourage consumer action so as to prevent further rights violations.

Kav LaOved (Worker's Hotline) is a nonprofit non governmental organization committed to protecting the rights of disadvantaged workers employed in Israel and by Israelis in the Occupied Territories, including Palestinians, migrant workers, subcontracted workers and new immigrants. Kav LaOved is committed to principles of democracy, equality and international law concerning human and social rights.

Government Drags Feet in Implementation of Brokerage Fee Resolution
by: Anat Kidron, Kav LaOved (27/06/2009) Court orders State to explain its failure to act against exorbitant brokerage fees illegally charged from migrant workers.


Walking cash machines: asylum seekers afraid to walk around alone
by: leah schlesinger, nrg (May 28, 2009) (20/06/2009) Once again Israeli bureaucracy at its best: the government replaced the identification documents of asylum seekers and refugees from Africa, but forgot to update the Bank of Israel. The result: they cannot open bank accounts, and are forced to carry all their money around with them. The way from here to a wave of violence and robbery is short.


Palestinian Contractor Threatens and Harasses Palestinian Workers in Settlement
by: Salfit branch of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (20/06/2009) A report on the Palestinian workers of a textile factory in the Israeli operated West Bank industrial zone of Barkan.


Palestinian Workers Hanging from Treetops in Jorday Valley Settlements
by: Raid Abu Yusef, Kav LaOved (20/06/2009) A report on work safety of Palestinians employed in date farming in Israeli Jordan Valley settlements.


Palestinian workers in Israeli West Bank settlements - 2008
by: Kav LaOved (20/06/2009) Kav LaOved's annual report on Palestinians working in Israeli West Bank settlements and industrial zones.


Freedom of information or freedom of evasion?
by: Att. Anat Kidron, Kav LaOved (13/06/2009) This report concerns the refusal of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor to provide information concerning the collection of fines from labor law violators.


Letter on the new distribution of authorities concerning the protection of migrant workers
by: Kav LaOved, Hotline for Migrant Worker and ACRI (13/06/2009) This letter argues against the exclusion of migrant caregivers from the jurisdiction of the new migrant worker rights supervisor in the Ministry of Interior.


The man with no rights
by: Zeruya Shalev, Haaretz (June 11, 2009) (13/06/2009) As part of Ha'aretz' special project that asked novelists to report news stories, Zeruya Shalev chose to report on fraud against an Indian migrant worker in Israel, and his abandonment by the State.