Immigrant Maids Flee Lives of Abuse in Kuwait

[nutmegdealer]

KUWAIT - With nowhere else to go, dozens of Nepalese maids who fled from their employers now sleep on the floor in the lobby of their embassy here, next to the visitors’ chairs.

In the Philippines Embassy, more than 200 women are packed in a sweltering room, where they sleep on their luggage and pass the time singing along to Filipino crooners on

Comments

[dr4win9f00l]

Holy shit, threw her out a damn window?

Holy shit.

[dr4win9f00l]

AND SHE FUCKING LOST THE CASE?!

[effervescent]

And the one that was tortured and killed?

This whole article just makes me sad and angry. And I agree - it may take more than awareness. When you have a whole society steeped in the idea that this is okay, awareness isn't always going to do much, if anything.

[dr4win9f00l]

I'm just so fucking angry I'm shaking. I had literally no idea. And I have absolutely no idea how I can help to change any of this.

[jade_808]

This is madness! I mean seriously!! They threw her out of a freakin' window... RAGE RAGE RAGE!! ughh

[fun_french_fri]

This is insane. omg

[carminaburana]

This is terrible and is a problem all over the Middle East. There's been a big spotlight on the problem in Lebanon recently and people should really check out this blog:

http://ethiopiansuicides.blogspot.com/