by Yaman Salahi Sushar Rosky, born 1987, hangs from the balcony of the apartment in which she worked as a maid for only 20 days in Sidon, Lebanon. She hung herself with bits of clothe carefully tied together in 2005. …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Lebanon, Racism, Slavery, Sponsorship, Women, Workers, Working conditions | 6 CommentsManama, Bahrain FIVE Asian labourers were injured, two of them seriously, when the open truck they were travelling in to work overturned early yesterday. The incident happened when the driver tried to avoid a Saudi-registered car, which allegedly changed lanes …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, News, Sponsorship, Workers, Working conditions | 1 Comment“So what?” many would ask. “That happens all the time here in the Arabian Gulf,” some would add. I’m guessing that the fact that THESE 180 workers are to be deported without having been paid for the past 4 months …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, News, UAE, Workers | Leave a commentThe View Point shares with us the following report, written and photographed by Mohamed Somji. Meet Zia: he is from Pakistan and is working as a carpenter for a construction company in Dubai. He is one of several people that …
Posted in UAE | Leave a commentSomewhere in Jizan, located in the southern region of Saudi Arabia, a maid died in a hospital after being brought there by her sponsor, whose wife had assaulted her. One thing pops into my mind: slavery. Not generalizing, I would …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, News, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Sponsorship | Leave a commentExceprts from a New York Times article, taken from Sepiamutiny. More than a million Sri Lankans – roughly 1 in every 19 citizens – now work abroad, and nearly 600,000 are housemaids… In Saudi Arabia, the most common destination, they …
Posted in Housemaids, Women | Leave a commentReported by the BBC on May of 2004 – An Indonesian maid has told a harrowing story of how she was repeatedly burnt with an iron and scalded with boiling water by her Malaysian employer’s wife. Nirmala Bonat, 19, told …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids | Leave a commentA Modern-Day “Slave Trade”: Sri Lankan Workers in Lebanon, reported by Reem Haddad: In what can be termed a modern-day slave trade, Sri Lankan women arrive in Lebanon only to find themselves abused, imprisoned, raped, hungry, defenseless and alone. Siriani …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Women | Leave a commentHabib Toumi of Gulf News reports: Manama: A Bahrain rights watchdog has reiterated its call to include migrant women in the country’s labour law, saying the move would ensure their protection against abuses. “The government should take immediate steps to …
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