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…
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Sri Lankan Maid Gang-Raped by Juveniles in Kuwait
November 1st, 2009
Housemaids Kuwait Legal cases News Rape
UAE: Two Men Conspire to Sell a Pregnant Maid into Prostitution
October 27th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases News Trafficking UAE
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
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids Legal cases News
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...
Op-ed in the Gulf Daily News: Lock up rogue sponsors – not their victims!
October 24th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Documentation Sponsorship
The following great op-ed piece appeared in the Gulf Daily News on October 23, 2009: Lock up rogue sponsors – not their victims! By Les Horton Yet again we see a report in the GDN of two allegedly abused workers trapped in Bahrain because their sponsors refuse to hand over their passports. The...
Lebanon: Ethiopian Maid Commits Suicide
October 23rd, 2009
Housemaids Lebanon News Suicide
Al-Akhbar reported today that an Ethiopian maid, Matene Kebede Zeditu (born 1983), was found hanging from an olive tree in Haris, southern Lebanon. An investigation has taken place, but it is yet to arrive to any conclusions. Fingerprints and photographs were taken at the scene of the suicide. The i...
Three Emiratis Arrested for Raping and Murdering Housemaids
October 20th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases News Rape UAE
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 ...
UN Special Rapporteur Asks UAE to End Racism
October 18th, 2009
Githu Muigai, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism and xenophobia, ended a recent 5-day visit to the UAE by calling for an end to discrimination against the country’s population of migrant workers. He voiced concerns about the system of granting citizenship, the problem of hu...
Radisson CSR for migrant workers – kind gesture or missing the point?
October 11th, 2009
Abusive employers General Gulf UAE Workers
An appeal backed by Radisson Hotels raised DH 1 million for construction workers during the month of Ramadan, according to this press release. The ‘Shoe Box Appeal 2009′ called on school children in the Emirates to donate gift boxes filled with basic items such as toothbrushes, nail clip...
Gulf is a Death Trap for Nepali Migrants
October 11th, 2009
Around 1000 Nepali migrant workers die every year – and 90% of these deaths take place in Gulf countries, according to this report in The Himalayan Times An estimated 2.6 million Nepalis work overseas as migrant workers, and out of these 1.2 are illegal. This leaves them more vulnerable to abu...
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