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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Abused Migrant Women in Lebanon Fight Back
January 29th, 2010
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Saudi mulls ban on Asian housemaids because they ‘don’t understand our culture’
January 27th, 2010
Saudi Arabia is mulling a ban on housemaids from certain Asian countries because they are ‘not able to adapt to local culture and tradition’ and are becoming too problematic, according to this article in the Arab News. This seems a rather preposterous claim given that many of the problem...
Abused and Injured Filipino Maid Trapped in Lebanon
January 27th, 2010
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The following ordeal of an abused Filipino worker is all too common in Lebanon. As we and others have documented, suicides by maids in Lebanon is an unfortunate result of this sort of abuse and feeling of helplessness. Gina (not her real name) is a 21-year-old Filipina who was brought to work in Leb...
Lebanon: Update on “falling” Nepalese couple
January 22nd, 2010
As-Safir newspaper added today to Al-Akhbar’s info yesterday that the two Nepalese girls, Santi Maya (1985) and Lama Asmita (1981) fell from the third floor of Salibi tower in Jisr El Basha. The first sustained injuries and the second died. I called today staff of a reputable NGO that has offi...
Sri Lanka Demands an Investigation into the Murder of an Abused Maid in Saudi Arabia
January 21st, 2010
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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 parents have received letters from her that detail...
Two Nepalese girls “fell” from the balcony of a business “bringing” maids to Lebanon
January 20th, 2010
I 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 Jisr El Basha where is located a business office for bringing migrant dom...
Two Maids Attempt Suicide in Kuwait
January 18th, 2010
The 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 paramedics managed to talk her out of jumping after an hour. In a s...
Two Ethiopian Maids Commit Suicide in Bahrain in Less than a Week
January 16th, 2010
The 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 home in the village of Aldih. She drank detergent and swallowed ...
Kuwaiti Sponsor Rapes his Maid
January 15th, 2010
The 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 her to the recruitment agency that he hired her from. The sponsor p...
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