The life of a Nepali maid on death row in Kuwait has been spared after a court ruling on December 23rd commuted her sentence. Dolma Sherpa was handed the death penalty in Kuwait last year for allegedly murdering her Filipinna room-mate while their employer was away on the Haj pilgrimage. (You can read more about [...]
In Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Gulf, there are no formal shelters for abused maids. If a housemaid runs away, more often than not, it is because of her discomfort in a certain house or because of mistreatment, but there is nowhere that she can go. Police or the agency that she came through will [...]
After days of violent protests that left tens injured and hundreds arrested and facing an imminent threat of deportation, workers in Kuwait ended a violent strike that was sparked by their poor living conditions. he workers, mostly of Bangladeshi origin, destroyed equipment and assaulted workers demanding an improvement of work conditions and a commitment from [...]
Kuwait City: Dec 12
Abubakar A. Ibrahim
Over a Hundred Indian workers on Wednesday staged a protest in front of the Indian Embassy to air their grievances against their company which allegedly ordered their arrest.
Four armed policemen on Tuesday raided the apartment of the workers where they assaulted and arrested 29 workers. The protesters claimed that [...]
Published Date: December 09, 2007
KUWAIT CITY: Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah agreed on Sunday to commute the death sentence on a Filipina maid to life in prison after a personal appeal by the visiting Philippine president.
“Normally I don’t interfere in the judicial process. We have a separate judicial system,” Philippines presidential spokesman Ignacio [...]
Published Date: November 29, 2007
By Muna Al-Fuzai, Staff columnist
KUWAIT: The front lawns of the Chinese Embassy in the Al-Yarmouk residential area yesterday witnessed yet another scene of agitating Chinese workers who assembled again in the desperate hope that their demands and rights would be met. It is apparently their word against the company, the [...]
KUWAIT: Around 280 Chinese laborers held a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Yarmouk yesterday. The men were protesting against their employer and demanding that their salaries, which some hadn’t received in six months, be paid immediately. The protesting laborers were sitting and lying on the ground in front of the Chinese Embassy [...]
Arab Times Reports:
Maid Attempts suicide
A 24 year old Indian Maid who tried in vain to end her life by cutting her wrist inside the bathroom of her sponsors home in Bneid Al Gar has been admitted to the Amiri Hospital, reports Alam Al Yawm daily.
A case of attempted suicide has been registered against the woman. [...]
Recently I have noticed that the suicide cases among workers and maids have been on the rise in Kuwait. There is at least one suicide case reported everyday, with a small coverage as though, it’s a one-off incident. Today, I came across 4 such reports in the Kuwait and Arab Times which I uploaded below. [...]
Kuwait times - Wednesday November 7, 2007
The family of an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) sentenced to death by a Kuwaiti Court is calling on President Macapagal Arroyo for more help. Rosario Ranario, father of Marilou Ranario said more government help was needed not that the Kuwaiti Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing on November [...]