Domestic workers in Gulf states face COVID-19 job losses & abuse from recruitment agencies
要約
Date Reported: 2020年7月7日
場所: サウジアラビア
企業
Almuhait Recruitment - Recruiter関連
Total individuals affected: 9
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - ケニア , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - ウガンダ , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported )課題
殴打及び暴力 , 食の権利 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
取られた措置: 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.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2020年7月7日
場所: サウジアラビア
その他
Not Reported ( 家事代行会社 ) - Recruiter関連
Total individuals affected: 1
移住者・移民労働者: ( 1 - フィリピン , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported )課題
Restricted mobility , 食の権利 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Personal Health , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: いいえ
取られた措置: None reported.
情報源のタイプ: 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.