Sri Lanka is demanding a full investigation into the murder of a Balakrishnan Dharshani, a 26-year-old maid whose body was found with burn marks last December in Hofuf, Saudi Arabia. According to an Arab News report from last week, Dharshani’s …
Posted in Housemaids, Legal cases, Saudi Arabia | 1 CommentI was hoping to keep blogging less these days as this would be a positive thing in my case, but I was wrong. Today, Al-Akhbar newspaper reported that two Nepalese girls “fell” from the third floor of a building in …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Suicide | 1 CommentThe Arab Times reported this week about the averted suicide attempts by two maids in Kuwait. In the first case, an Indonesian maid in her thirties threatened to jump from high at her sponsor’s house in Omariya. The firemen and …
Posted in Housemaids, Kuwait, Suicide | 4 CommentsThe Bahraini daily Al-Wasat reported on January 14 about two case of suicide and attempted suicide by maids in Bahrain within less than a week. In the first case, an Ethiopian maid locked herself in the bathroom at her employer’s …
Posted in Bahrain, Housemaids, Suicide | 12 CommentsThe Kuwaiti paper Arab Times reported this week about an Asian maid who was raped by her sponsor after asking to stop working for him. The maid reported about difficulties working for the family and requested that the sponsor return …
Posted in Housemaids, Kuwait, Rape | 2 CommentsAn Ethiopian maid, Betlehim Sh., died at the house of her employer M. M. who is the head of a municipality in Northern Maten (Mount Lebanon). Security reports indicated that she was taken to hospital last Monday after drinking a …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, Suicide | 2 CommentsAl Watan Daily reports that a Sri Lankan maid was severely beaten, held against her will and not paid her salary for seventeen months. More alarming in the story, and adding to a pattern of female-headed abuses, it was the …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Kuwait, Slavery | 2 CommentsThe Philippine channel GMA TV reported last week about the return of over 100 Filipino workers from Lebanon. The Philippines officially has a ban on sending workers to Lebanon, and those repatriated entered the country illegally. Two such worker described …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Lebanon, Rape, Working conditions | 7 CommentsThe Kuwait Times is the first newspaper to report about the wave of suicide and suicide attempts in Kuwait that occurred in November. Apparently they did so after reading some of our reports here on Migrant-Rights. In the first paragraph, …
Posted in Housemaids, Kuwait, MR Site, Suicide, Working conditions | 7 Comments