Archive for the ‘Women’ Category

ABU DHABI — A 40-year-old Filipina housemaid suffered serious injuries and was admitted to a hospital after she fell from the second floor of a building in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
A police official who did not want to be named told Khaleej Times the maid was apparently trying to escape from the apartment of [...]

From the BBC -
Darmianti binti Jaba Saleh only realised where she was when she pulled out the pile of money she had been given.
Written across the top of the notes were the words “Bank of Iraq”.
Darmianti was having her medical check-up prior to being placed as a domestic worker in the Kurdish north of Iraq.
The [...]

According to an article in the LA Times concerning modern slavery:
One hot june day in 2006, I saw what slavery really meant. In a rundown mansion in a slum of Bucharest, Romania, a pimp offered to sell me a young woman he described as “a blond.” She had bleached hair, hastily applied makeup, and she [...]

From Lankan Business online:
DUBAI, Jan 24, 2008 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan maid, in transit on her way home from Kuwait to see her children for the first time in three years, hanged herself in a toilet at Dubai airport, an Emirati daily said on Thursday.
The report came just two days after the oil-rich Gulf [...]

Via the BBC:
An Indonesian housemaid has been executed in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of killing her employer, the Saudi interior ministry has said.
The woman was beheaded in the southern Asir province, in what was the second execution in the country in 2008.
The maid was earlier found guilty of suffocating her female boss and stealing [...]

This is a compilation of articles concerning migrant workers in the Middle East.
- Slavery of children and women in Persian gulf countries
- Most citizens of Kazakhstan who fall victim to human trafficking are sent to the UAE
- May 26: “A group of Iranian boys and girls will be sold in an auction today in Fojeyreh, [...]

The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) remains a destination country for men and women trafficked for the purpose of involuntary servitude and commercial sexual exploitation. Women from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and the Philippines migrate willingly to the U.A.E. to work as domestic servants, but many face conditions of involuntary servitude such as excessive [...]

Published Date: December 09, 2007
KUWAIT CITY: Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah agreed on Sunday to commute the death sentence on a Filipina maid to life in prison after a personal appeal by the visiting Philippine president.
“Normally I don’t interfere in the judicial process. We have a separate judicial system,” Philippines presidential spokesman Ignacio [...]

By BARBARA SURK for the Associated Press.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Foreign housemaids in the oil-rich Gulf sometimes work 21-hour days without medical care, enough food, or the right to go home, and they also face violence and harassment, a human rights report said Wednesday.
Dubai’s government, shaken by a rash of recent labor protests, [...]

Arab Times Reports………
Maid Attempts suicide
A 24 year old Indian Maid who tried in vain to end her life by cutting her wrist inside the bathroom of her sponsors home in Bneid Al Gar has been admitted to the Amiri Hospital, reports Alam Al Yawm daily.
A case of attempted suicide has been registered against the woman. [...]