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Jordan: Foreign housemaids suffer harassment and abuse

March 10th, 2010

Abusive employers Housemaids Jordan Suicide Working conditions

Below is the translation from Arabic of an article that appeared in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur last month.
Foreign housemaids suffer harassment and abuse
Amman – Al-Dustur Newspaper – Fares Al-Habashneh
13 February, 2010
Foreign housemaids in Jordan are slowly but surely beginning to raise t…

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Saudi Media Acknowledges that Sponsor Abuse Drives Maids to Suicide

March 7th, 2010

Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia Suicide

The Arab Times, Saudi’s leading English-language paper recently published a report about the prevalence of suicide by housemaids as a result of abuse and maltreatment. Most recently, a 30-year-old maid committed suicide in Saudi on February 26. Below is the article by Arab Times. This article ...

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Modern-Day Slavery in the UAE: Unpaid Filipino Maid Beaten and Starved for Years

March 2nd, 2010

Abusive employers Housemaids Slavery UAE

A Filipina housemaid was starved, abused, kept locked inside and not given salaries for three years by her employers in the UAE, Khaleej Times reported last month. The woman, Baina Mokalam (27) came to work for a Egyptian family in the UAE as a maid three years ago. Baina said that whenever she aske...

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Lebanon: “The rights of 90% of maids are violated”

February 24th, 2010

Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Suicide Working conditions

Lebanese television NBN aired a 22-minute interview, on the evening of Monday 22 February 2010, with Dr. Ahmad Ayash, head of a psycho-social studies center, and Mr. John Cassabli, owner of a business which bring maids to Lebanon. The latter acknowledged the detrimental role of many businesses in th...

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Bahrain: Two Asian Men Arrested for Rape of an Indonesian Maid

February 23rd, 2010

Bahrain Housemaids Rape

Bahraini security officials have detained two Asian men in connection with the alleged gang rape of an Indonesian housemaid. Officials from the Interior Ministry announced that two expatriates were arrested and further confirmed that not nine men raped the women according to earlier reports. Accordi...

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Maids Portrayed as Criminals in a UAE Paper

February 23rd, 2010

Abusive employers Housemaids Racism Suicide UAE

Migrant workers are often portrayed in regional media as criminals, unclean and dangerous, despite the fact that they are the weakest group in society and require protection and deserve gratitude for their hard work. The Khaleej Times recently published a rather skewed article about housemaids commi...

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Lebanon: “Falling” Ethiopian dies in Shoueifat

February 17th, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon Suicide

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported today the “fall” of Ethiopian national Ambet Spuka, born in 1987, from the 4th floor of her employer’s house, Hanan S, in Shoueifat, South of Beirut. Ambet died before arriving to hospital. In addition, we note that no follow up coverage whatsoever was...

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The Invisible Majority – Female Migrant Workers

February 3rd, 2010

Abusive employers Housemaids Qatar Rape Suicide

by Khara J Jabola-Carolus for Migrant-Rights.org One of the last (two) countries where divorce is illegal and where the ruling Catholic elite maintains a staunch anti-reproductive rights stance, the island nation of the Philippines boasts a staggering population of 90 million people and (exponential...

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Abused Migrant Women in Lebanon Fight Back

January 29th, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon Legal cases Women

Migrant Rights has extensively covered the abuses of female domestic workers in Lebanon. Now, some of these women are summoning the courage to fight back against their abusers by bringing legal cases against them. This article in AFP tells the story of 22 year old Nanda, a Sri Lankan woman who is on...

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