The horrible and shameful treatment of foreign workers in Gulf States in the Middle East

Posted on May 14, 2012

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CNN.com

[…] Nepal is one of the poorest countries on earth. With little work available, an estimated 1,300 Nepalese citizens go abroad for work every single day. But every day some return in coffins.

“On an average per day, two to three coffins are coming back to Nepal mostly from the Gulf countries,” said sociologist Ganesh Gurung, a member of Nepal’s government task force for foreign labor reform.

The official reason for the deaths vary, but once the bodies make it to Nepal the cause of death is rarely if ever investigated further.

Gurung says Nepalese workers attracted by good money abroad often face awful problems. The most common complaint: workers do not get what they were promised. But the complaints can be far worse, particularly for women who work as maids in homes.

“They have experienced physical exploitation, sexual exploitation, and we have received many girls coming back with children from their employers,” Gurung said.

We met one such maid. Not even her own family knows the pain she has suffered. Kumari is seven months pregnant and said the baby inside her is a product of rape. The father, she says, is her former employer in Kuwait.

For a year-and-a-half Kumari said she was paid the equivalent of $144 a month but then the pay stopped and the beatings started.

“My landlord would beat me, they (he and his wife) both would beat me. My body would ache. I bore that beating for a long time but stayed,” she said in tears.

Then one day, she said, the beating came with something else; rape.

She said the landlord came home when the rest of the family was out, and called her into the bathroom while she was folding clothes in another room. When she refused he came to her.

“He beat me up. First he covered my mouth so I could not scream. After he did that (raped me) I asked for my passport. He wouldn’t give it to me,” she said her voice breaking. [Please click here to read the whole story and to watch a video interview of one of the many women raped in a “Muslim” country.]

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