Domestic workers in Gulf states face COVID-19 job losses & abuse from recruitment agencies
摘要
日期: 2020年7月7日
地點: 沙烏地阿拉伯
企業
Almuhait Recruitment - Recruiter受影響的
受影響的總人數: 9
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 肯亞 , 家傭中介公司 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 烏干達 , 家傭中介公司 , Gender not reported )議題
毆打和暴力 , 食物權 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
已邀請回應:是,由Journalist
後續行動: 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.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2020年7月7日
地點: 沙烏地阿拉伯
其他
Not Reported ( 家傭中介公司 ) - Recruiter受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 菲律賓 , 家傭中介公司 , Gender not reported )議題
Restricted mobility , 食物權 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Personal Health , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
Response sought: 否
後續行動: None reported.
資訊來源: 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.