Domestic workers in Gulf states face COVID-19 job losses & abuse from recruitment agencies
摘要
日期: 2020年7月7日
地点: 沙特阿拉伯
企业
Almuhait Recruitment - Recruiter受影响的
受影响的总人数: 9
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 肯尼亚 , 家佣中介公司 , Gender not reported ) , 外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 乌干达 , 家佣中介公司 , Gender not reported )议题
殴打和暴力 , 食物权 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , 剥夺迁徙自由回应
已邀请回应:是,由Journalist
后续行动: 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.
信息来源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2020年7月7日
地点: 沙特阿拉伯
其他
Not Reported ( 家佣中介公司 ) - Recruiter受影响的
受影响的总人数: 1
外劳和移民工人: ( 1 - 菲律宾 , 家佣中介公司 , Gender not reported )议题
Restricted mobility , 食物权 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Personal Health , 剥夺迁徙自由回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: 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.