According to Arab News, a middle-aged Filipino woman was beaten up because she refused to be a maid/slave:
Officials at the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah yesterday said Myrna Salvador was admitted to Dr. Baksh Hospital in the Mina district of the city after suffering a fractured spine and …
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Filipino worker beaten/locked up for refusing to be a maid
October 26th, 2007
Abusive employers Prison Saudi Arabia
Midday Heat Escape for Workers
June 25th, 2007
Bahrain Legislation News Workers Working conditions
Gulf Daily News reports that migrant workers might get an opportunity to escape the heat of the midday sun during Bahrain’s hottest two months, as The Cabinet urges a ban on outdoor work from 12-4pm during July and August. The Cabinet yesterday moved to protect workers from Bahrain’s sc...
Stranded prisoners attempt suicide
May 13th, 2007
Gulf Daily News reports about a suicide attempt by 2 men, one Sri Lankan and the other Indian, who have spent approximately 2 years in Bahrain’s deportation centre. Excerpt of the article: Around 10 hours before the apparent attempted suicides, one prisoner told the GDN a group of six men wer...
Wedding proposal lands maid in jail
April 4th, 2007
Abusive employers Bahrain Gulf Housemaids Prison Women
A young housemaid has recently been arrested and sent to prison for asking permission to get married (a brief explanation is provided below, after the published news article.) From today’s GDN: A WEDDING proposal landed a teenage housemaid behind bars after she told her female employer she wa...
Dubai court jails couple for torturing maid
March 19th, 2007
Abusive employers Gulf Legal cases Rape UAE
The following article is reported by Agence France Presse (AFP) and has been republished in The Daily Star - A couple who tried to treat a Filipino maid like an inmate of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison have been jailed in Dubai for three years for torture and sexual harassment, a newspaper reported...
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