Why maids keep dying in Saudi Arabia
economictimes.com
In Kenya, women eager for new opportunities in Saudi Arabia often face dire conditions instead. Promised decent wages, many encounter abuse, unpaid wages, and dire living conditions. Kenya and Uganda continue sending workers, despite increasing deaths and abuse cases. Authorities profit from the system, overlooking the exploitation and neglecting vital protections for the workers.

In Kenya, women eager for new opportunities in Saudi Arabia often face dire conditions instead. Promised decent wages, many encounter abuse, unpaid wages, and dire living conditions. Kenya and Uganda continue sending workers, despite increasing deaths and abuse cases. Authorities profit from the system, overlooking the exploitation and neglecting vital protections for the workers.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Because it’s Saudi Arabia. It’s a fucking monarchy where law only protects “real saudis”, unless it goes against the house of Saud or their friends, then the laws are wrong.

    Nobody, especially the USA, dares to pressure them into being fair with their own people because they still control vast quantities of oil and can increase or decrease the price globally in a matter of days.

    There’s also this thing that, under normal circumstances, would scream CONFLICT OF INTEREST:

    There are people who are supposed to protect these women – government officials such as Fabian Kyule Muli, vice chair of the labor committee in Kenya’s National Assembly. (…) But Muli, like other East African officials, also owns a staffing company that sends women to Saudi Arabia. (…) Members of the Saudi royal family are major investors in agencies that place domestic workers. Politicians and their relatives in Uganda and Kenya own staffing agencies, too.

    No wonder, despite the vast evidence of torture and abuse, saudi officials claim most of those deaths as “natural”. It’d affect business and we don’t want business to suffer, eh???

    What became clear was that powerful people profit off the system as it exists.