Domestic workers in Gulf states face COVID-19 job losses & abuse from recruitment agencies
요약
보고된 날짜: 2020년 7월 7일
위치: 사우디아라비아
기업 페이지
Almuhait Recruitment - Recruiter영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 9
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 케냐 , 가사노동 중개업소 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 우간다 , 가사노동 중개업소 , Gender not reported )토픽들
폭력 , 식량권 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 이동 제한 , 여권 압류 , 개인 건강 , 이동의 자유결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
시행된 조치: 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.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2020년 7월 7일
위치: 사우디아라비아
기타
Not Reported ( 가사노동 중개업소 ) - Recruiter영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - 필리핀 , 가사노동 중개업소 , Gender not reported )토픽들
이동 제한 , 식량권 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 개인 건강 , 이동의 자유결과
Response sought: 아니오
시행된 조치: None reported.
출처: 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.