Domestic workers in Gulf states face COVID-19 job losses & abuse from recruitment agencies
Résumé
Date indiquée: 7 Jul 2020
Lieu: Arabie Saoudite
Entreprises
Almuhait Recruitment - RecruiterConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 9
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Kenya , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Gender not reported ) , Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Ouganda , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Coups et violence , Droit à l'alimentation , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Déni de liberté de mouvementRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par Journalist
Mesures prises: After the New York Times contacted Almuhait Recruitment about the women's situation, several of the women, including the pregnant woman, were taken to hospital for medical checkups and COVID-19 tests. The Kenyan ambassador to Saudi Arabia stated that it was the responsibility of Saudi Arabia to ensure the safety of migrant workers there. The NYT report states that it is the responsibility of the agency that recruited the Kenyan women in Kenya to help them home; the agency is no longer answering its phone or responding to messages.
Type de source: News outlet
Résumé
Date indiquée: 7 Jul 2020
Lieu: Arabie Saoudite
Autre
Not Reported ( Agences de placement de personnel de maison ) - RecruiterConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 1
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( 1 - Philippines , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Restricted mobility , Droit à l'alimentation , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Personal Health , Déni de liberté de mouvementRéponse
Response sought: Non
Mesures prises: None reported.
Type de source: News outlet
"In Arab States, coronavirus pandemic traps African domestic workers who fin themselves unemployed, abused," 7 Jul 2020
Nine African women lost their jobs as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia because of the coronavirus lockdown, the agency that had recruited them [imprisoned them]...
since March. One is now six months pregnant but receiving no maternity care. Another tore her clothes off in a fit of distress, so the agency chained her to a wall.
The women receive food once a day... but don’t know when they [can] return to their countries...
For the Kenyan women, the agency that recruited them in Kenya is responsible for helping them return home... [it] is no longer answering its phone or responding to messages...
The women said they had been locked up by their Saudi agency, Almuhait Recruitment. It did not respond to requests for comment...
After The New York Times contacted Almuhait Recruitment about the women’s situation on Sunday... several of the women, including the pregnant woman, had been taken to a hospital for medical checkups and COVID-19 tests.