Nepal has banned the travel of housemaids to Saudi Arabia and other Arabian Gulf countries but could cancel the decision after an agreement on domestic worker’s rights is signed with the regional states.
The ban decision affects only female domestic workers and it follows reports about mistreatment and other abuses of Asian maids by their Arabian employers in the Gulf states, according to a report in the Saudi Arabic language daily Alriyadh.
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Bangladesh, Abdullah Al Basiri, is cited as saying that citizens from the Gulf Kingdom should stop trying to recruit Nepalese maids through private hiring offices.
Nepal protects his female maids from filthy rich abusive Arabs
‘Nepal now does not allow maids to travel to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries,’ expressed Basiri, also Saudi non-resident ambassador to Nepal.
The travel ban could be lifted once an agreement is signed between Nepal and Saudi Arabia on the hiring of housemaids, it is advised that Saudis would not go to hiring offices because the ban is still in force.’
Indonesian and Philippine maids suffer at the hands of Arabs in Arab countries
Indonesia and the Philippines, the largest maid exporters to the Gulf states, world’s biggest oil producers, have also suspended their travel to Saudi Arabia following a rift over employment conditions and reports of their constant abuse by Arabs.
According to a 2011 survey conducted by the Saudi magazine Sayidaty, more than 3 million maids in the Arab countries in the Gulf are living in deplorable conditions and more incidents of verbal and physical abuse are reported. The report point out that several maids who were imprisoned in their employers’ homes in the UAE and were constantly being harassed and sometimes forced to engage in sexual activities.
Sadistic Arabs torture maids from far east : Arab women are also vicious torturers and abusers
Another survey includes stories of horrible maid abuse in different parts of the Arab world with racist and sadistic motives in play. For example an Arab woman cut her maid’s lips and scalp and several parts of her body to torture her.
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