The decision last week by the Saudi Arabian government to stop hiring maids from Indonesia and the Philippines as of Aug.1 has created chaos in the overseas labor markets of the two countries, with the fate uncertain for tens of thousands signed up by labor contractors waiting to leave for the gulf kingdom.
The Philippines has some 25,000-35,000 prospective workers in the pipeline to go to Saudi Arabia and 360,000 workers there now, a government spokesman said on Friday. Some 180,000 are domestic helpers. Saudi Arabia is the top destination of Filipino overseas foreign workers in total and fourth for domestic helpers.
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Human rights organizations for years have been complaining about the treatment of overseas workers in the Saudi kingdom. Foreign workers, Human Rights Watch said, “face torture, forced confessions and unfair trials when they are accused of crimes.” Foreign workers, the organization said in a 135 page report “have been denied consular visits and forced to sign confessions that they could not read.”
Amnesty International, in its 2011 report on Saudi Arabia, said that, “The sponsorship system governing employment of foreign nationals [in Saudi Arabia] continued to expose them to exploitation and abuse by private and government employers, and allowed them little or no redress. Typical abuses included long working hours, non-payment of salaries, being refused permission to return home after completing their contracts and violence, particularly against women domestic workers.” Full story...
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The Philippines has some 25,000-35,000 prospective workers in the pipeline to go to Saudi Arabia and 360,000 workers there now, a government spokesman said on Friday. Some 180,000 are domestic helpers. Saudi Arabia is the top destination of Filipino overseas foreign workers in total and fourth for domestic helpers.
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Human rights organizations for years have been complaining about the treatment of overseas workers in the Saudi kingdom. Foreign workers, Human Rights Watch said, “face torture, forced confessions and unfair trials when they are accused of crimes.” Foreign workers, the organization said in a 135 page report “have been denied consular visits and forced to sign confessions that they could not read.”
Amnesty International, in its 2011 report on Saudi Arabia, said that, “The sponsorship system governing employment of foreign nationals [in Saudi Arabia] continued to expose them to exploitation and abuse by private and government employers, and allowed them little or no redress. Typical abuses included long working hours, non-payment of salaries, being refused permission to return home after completing their contracts and violence, particularly against women domestic workers.” Full story...
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