Category: Women
by Salim Essaid 36 year old Kikim Komalasari’s murder has lead to an investigation by the Indonesian government to look into the details of this migrant worker who was found in a dumpster in the town of Abha, Saudi Arabia. …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, Housemaids, Recruitment Agencies, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Sponsorship, Suicide, UAE, Workers, Working conditions |
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Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today the death, last Wednesday, during the Ad’ha holiday, of a Bengali domestic worker, Kazol Idris, aged 24. The worker fell from the window of her employer’s house, Hassan Sh., on the third floor of a …
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Last week, the Shankaboot team who produces a Lebanese web drama of the name Shankaboot, produced a short satirical teaser depicting a Lebanese woman talking about her maid, and advising Lebanese women on the subject of domestic workers. Madam Najem …
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This week, two cases of severe abuse of Indonesian maids by their Saudi sponsors have surfaced, one of them ending in death and the other in serious injuries. The first case, of 23-year-old Sumiati BT Salan Mustapa was first reported …
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In the last couple of days two reports have come out from Amman and Kuwait about Sri-Lankan maids who were tortured using nails. A similar case we reported in August involved Ariyawathie, a Sri-Lankan maid who had over 20 nails …
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Lebanon’s National News Agency reported today that an Ethiopian domestic worker tried to escape from the house of her employers in Bshamoun, tying bed sheets together and using them as a rope, and climbing down from the 6th floor balcony. …
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Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today the fall of Ethiopian domestic worker, Shioai A. from the 3rd floor of her employer’s house in Tripoli (Northern Lebanon). She sustained severe injuries in the head and in the stomach and was transferred to …
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“If we think that human trafficking is the ‘modus operandi’ of unlicensed and illegal recruiters victimizing thousands would-be overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and even old-timer OFWs, then we are partly wrong and must be corrected.” Thus, said today by an …
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“Sir john please help me naka-kulong ako d2 sa rooftop ng bahay ng amo ko; ayaw nila ako i-return sa agency, wala ako kain dito please kunin nyo ako dito (Sir john please help me; I am locked up at …
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