The 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 an assault authorities believe was committed by the son of the maids…
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2 Indonesian Maids Beaten to Death
August 6th, 2007
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia Slavery
Al Jazeera reports – Maids in a living hell
August 1st, 2007
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids
Thousands 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 abroad as domestic workers come from Indonesia and the Philippines, with...
Abuse of Indonesian Maids
July 28th, 2007
Abusive employers Housemaids Slavery Women Working conditions
Alarming 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 to go to original video.
Transporting Workers
April 20th, 2007
Abusive employers Bahrain Gulf News Workers Working conditions
Manama, 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 work in covered vehicles. A normal person would interpret...
Migrant Workers in Bahrain and the problems they face
April 6th, 2007
Abusive employers Bahrain Gulf Slavery Sponsorship
The 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 report neatly...
Wedding proposal lands maid in jail
April 4th, 2007
Abusive employers Bahrain Gulf Housemaids Prison Women
A 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 after she told her female employer she wa...
The sad plight of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
March 29th, 2007
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Racism Slavery Sponsorship Women Workers Working conditions
by 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. No investigation was conducted into the circumstances leading up to her death. Almo...
Another Horrorific, Yet Avoidable Accident
March 29th, 2007
Abusive employers Bahrain News Sponsorship Workers Working conditions
Manama, 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 at high speed in the Seef District at a...
180 Workers to be Deported
March 29th, 2007
Abusive employers Gulf News UAE Workers
“So what?” many would ask. “That happens all the time here in the Arabian Gulf,” some would add. I’m guessing that the fact that THESE 180 workers are to be deported without having been paid for the past 4 months is also a normal thing here in the Gulf. These men, all o...
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