With employers frequently abusing their rights, a legal system that ensures them no protection and rights groups that aren’t , the situation of domestic migrant workers in Lebanon is very bleak.
“I have only six months left and then I will go back to the Congo,” says Angelique, speaking to IRIN from across the balcony […]
ABU DHABI — The Filipina housemaid E.F., who jumped from the second floor in an attempt to escape from her employer told investigators that she was trying to run away because she was over-worked and wanted to seek a better job.
The Abu Dhabi Police have referred the case to the Public Prosecution for appropriate action […]
ABU DHABI — A 40-year-old Filipina housemaid suffered serious injuries and was admitted to a hospital after she fell from the second floor of a building in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
A police official who did not want to be named told Khaleej Times the maid was apparently trying to escape from the apartment of […]
From the BBC -
Darmianti binti Jaba Saleh only realised where she was when she pulled out the pile of money she had been given.
Written across the top of the notes were the words “Bank of Iraq”.
Darmianti was having her medical check-up prior to being placed as a domestic worker in the Kurdish north of Iraq.
The […]
From Lankan Business online:
DUBAI, Jan 24, 2008 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan maid, in transit on her way home from Kuwait to see her children for the first time in three years, hanged herself in a toilet at Dubai airport, an Emirati daily said on Thursday.
The report came just two days after the oil-rich Gulf […]
Via the BBC:
An Indonesian housemaid has been executed in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of killing her employer, the Saudi interior ministry has said.
The woman was beheaded in the southern Asir province, in what was the second execution in the country in 2008.
The maid was earlier found guilty of suffocating her female boss and stealing […]
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 […]
By BARBARA SURK for the Associated Press.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Foreign housemaids in the oil-rich Gulf sometimes work 21-hour days without medical care, enough food, or the right to go home, and they also face violence and harassment, a human rights report said Wednesday.
Dubai’s government, shaken by a rash of recent labor protests, […]
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. […]