“I still cannot believe that I am out of this ordeal that I have undergone for the past 10 years,” said Anista Marie, 40, who since 1999 hasn’t received her salary. Marie called up Arab News a little over 3 …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, Housemaids, News, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Sponsorship | Leave a commentThe Arab News service reports yet another horrific story from Saudi Arabia this morning: JEDDAH, 6 August 2007 — Two Indonesian maids were beaten to death and two others remain in the intensive care unit at a Riyadh hospital in …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Saudi Arabia, Slavery | 1 CommentThousands of Asian women leave their homes each year to seek better jobs abroad as domestic workers. Many of them are treated well, but some – subjected to physical and mental abuse – endure a living hell. Most who venture …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, Housemaids | Leave a commentAlarming report: Thousands of Asian women leave their homes each year to seek better jobs abroad – usually working as domestic help. Many of them are young and inexperienced, and some are subjected to physical and mental abuse. Click here …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Slavery, Women, Working conditions | Leave a commentManama, Bahrain A few weeks back, we wrote about a serious accident which put several foreign workers in hospital beds. It seems that some months prior to this incident, the Bahraini government proposed that workers be transported to and from …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, Gulf, News, Workers, Working conditions | Leave a commentThe Migrant Workers Protection Society in Bahrain has prepared an important report entitled “Migrant Workers in Bahrain & the Policies of Emigration Countries.” Some important sections are highlighted below, but the entire report can be downloaded by clicking here. The …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, Gulf, Slavery, Sponsorship | 1 CommentA young housemaid has recently been arrested and sent to prison for asking permission to get married (a brief explanation is provided below, after the published news article.) From today’s GDN: A WEDDING proposal landed a teenage housemaid behind bars …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, Gulf, Housemaids, Prison, Women | 2 Commentsby Yaman Salahi Sushar Rosky, born 1987, hangs from the balcony of the apartment in which she worked as a maid for only 20 days in Sidon, Lebanon. She hung herself with bits of clothe carefully tied together in 2005. …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Lebanon, Racism, Slavery, Sponsorship, Women, Workers, Working conditions | 6 CommentsManama, Bahrain FIVE Asian labourers were injured, two of them seriously, when the open truck they were travelling in to work overturned early yesterday. The incident happened when the driver tried to avoid a Saudi-registered car, which allegedly changed lanes …
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