Material World: ‘I Feel I am a Slave’
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Below is the discussion so far. Feel free to add your own comments!Today's report, as millions flee Syria, Nepalese women are being trafficked to the war-torn country and forced to work as domestic maids. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/01/nepal-women-trafficked-syria-forced-domestic-labour
Another follow up to this article http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/11/uk-increasing-abuse-foreign-maids-tied-visas
Quote:The British government is exposing thousands of women brought to the UK by wealthy Gulf families to conditions of slavery, trafficking and abuse, according to a review of domestic worker visas. An independent review of the visa, commissioned by the Home Office and authored by barrister James Ewins, strongly endorses this assessment. The review found “no evidence that a tie to a single employer does anything other than increase the risk of abuse and therefore increases actual abuse”.Yet another developmentThe Ugandan government has banned its citizens from taking jobs as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, claiming they are often abused by their employers.Muruli Wilson Mukasa, minister of gender, labour and social development, said on Friday that the government continued "to receive information of our people being subjected to inhuman treatment at the hands of the employers in Saudi Arabia".Uganda becomes the fourth country after Indonesia, Ethiopia and the Philippines to ban their nationals from traveling to Saudi to work as domestic workers, over concerns of abuse.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/uganda-bans-housemaids-working-saudi-arabia-160123051600447.html
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