The Philipino Star reported today that a Filipino janitor has been detained in Hafer Al Baten Central Jail in Saudi Arabia for the last month for having an illicit relationship with a Bangladeshi co-worker. According to the 35-year-old woman, however, she did not have a relationship with the Banglad…
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Sri Lankan Maid Gang-Raped by Juveniles in Kuwait
November 1st, 2009
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The Kuwaiti Arab Times reported yesterday about a Sri Lankan maid (23), who was raped by juveniles in Kuwait. The maid ran away from her sponsor and was heading to the Sri Lankan embassy in Kuwait city when she passed near a parked car. The juveniles in the car forced her in and raped her. They lat...
UAE: Two Men Conspire to Sell a Pregnant Maid into Prostitution
October 27th, 2009
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Gulf News reports that a Bangladeshi laundryman plead guilty yesterday in a Dubai court to helping his friend, A.N., sell a 24-year-old Bangladeshi housemaid to a pimp. A.N. is also facing charges for attempted human trafficking, but was not present at the court. The maid was carrying A.N.’s b...
Bahraini man who murdered a maid receives a life sentence
October 26th, 2009
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A Bahraini court handed a life sentence to a man who murdered his maid, Gulf News reported today. As we’ve previously wrote, the man was spotted dumping the body of Ami Tursiya Takiyat (29), an Indonesian maid who worked for him. We welcome this severe sentence that shows that the lives of mig...
UAE: Two Bangladeshi Men Charged with Kidnapping and Raping Filipino Maids
October 26th, 2009
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Two Bangladeshi men went on trial in Dubai yesterday for kidnapping two Filipino maids, gang-raping one of them and trying to force them into prostitution, Khaleej Times reported today. The housemaids were walking around Abu Dhabi when three Bangladeshi men pulled up next to them in a car and forced...
Bahrain: Police is yet to charge the abusive employers of an Indian maid
October 24th, 2009
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The Bahraini-based Migrant Workers Protection Society (MWPS), has recently highlighted the case of Lakshmi Surampudi, an Indian woman who came to work as a maid in Bahrain in 2005. Three months ago, after nearly four years of abuse, Surampudi fled her sponsor and was found extremely malnourished and...
Three Emiratis Arrested for Raping and Murdering Housemaids
October 20th, 2009
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Three young Emiratis were arrested by police in Fujairah for allegedly gang-raping two housemaids and murdering one of them, Khaleej Times reported today. One of the maids allowed her 15-year-old employer to invite his friends, aged 19 and 23, to have a night with her and another maid, a Sri Lankan ...
Kuwait plans to abolish the sponsorship system in a new labor law
October 10th, 2009
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Mohammad Al Afassi, Kuwait’s Social Affairs and Labour Minister, declared that the draft of Kuwait’s new labor law will abolish the sponsorship system, Gulf News reported earlier this week. Instead of the sponsorship system, a non-profit authority (assuming, a governmental authority) wil...
UAE: 13-year-old girl and two women from Iraq forced into prostitution
October 9th, 2009
Legal cases News Trafficking UAE
The Khaleej Times reported today about a horrible case of human trafficking and child exploitation in the UAE. An Iraqi couple was charged with human trafficking and running a prostitution ring after the police found in their apartment in Sharjah two women and one girl who were engaged in prostituti...
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