AsiaNews carried a story yesterday about a Filipino maid who was abused and discriminated for her Catholic faith. Because of this abuse, the maid recently returned to the Philippines, before the end of her work contract. Norma Caldera worked in …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Saudi Arabia, Working conditions | 14 CommentsThe Arab Times reported today about the case on an Indian worker in Saudi Arabia who was kidnapped by a Saudi man and brought to the desert to tend to his herd of camels. The worker, Noushad (28) tried to …
Posted in Saudi Arabia, Slavery | 1 CommentThe following is a translation on an article that appeared in the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat last week. The dreams of foreign maids in Lebanon turn into nightmares The rise of suicide rates to one case a week due to …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Lebanon, Legal cases, Slavery, Suicide | 4 CommentsA Filipino maid who was abused by her employer will testify before a court in Ajman, UAE in two weeks, the National Newspaper reported today. According to the report, the 25-year-old maid, Marilyn Vinluan, was repeatedly slapped, kicked and beaten …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Legal cases, Slavery, UAE | 2 CommentsOn 9 December 2009, a criminal court judge (single judge) in Batroun sentenced a Lebanese woman who beat the Filipino maid who was working at her home to 15 days of prison, to a fine of fifty thousand Lebanese Pounds, …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Lebanon, Legal cases, Working conditions | 9 CommentsOlivia Sterns of CNN reported Wednesday on the suicides and deaths of 10 migrant domestic workers in Lebanon between October-November, saying the deaths show the government is “doing too little to protect migrant domestic workers from severe abuse.” “In August, …
Posted in Documentation, Lebanon, Suicide, Working conditions | 1 CommentThe UN’s IRIN News recently published a report about the difficulties Nepal’s government is having with preventing its women from traveling to the Gulf to work there in the domestic labor sector. According to Nepali activists, there is a growing …
Posted in Abusive employers, Gulf, Housemaids, Kuwait, Slavery, Trafficking, UAE | 2 CommentsA three-member delegation of the Philippine House Committee on Workers Affairs visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan during October and found egregious violations of migrant rights in all three countries. The mission was sent following a rise in reports …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, UAE | 3 CommentsCNN carried a report last week about a former Indonesian sex slave in Saudi Arabia. At the age of 17 the woman was promised a job as a maid in Saudi Arabia by an Indonesian recruitment agency. Coming from a …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Rape, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Trafficking | 27 Comments