Migrant domestic workers face abuse
Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he wants justice for a domestic worker who was allegedly tortured by her employers in Saudi Arabia. The 23-year-old maid has been hospitalized in Medina since November 8th, with burns all over her body, a fractured middle finger and cuts around her lips, reportedly made by scissors.
Domestic workers works “end up being under the complete and utter control of their employers behind the closed doors of their homes,” says Audrey Guichon, Domestic Worker Programme Coordinator for Anti-Slavery International.
She told Vatican Radio migrant domestic workers are often treated like slaves.
“What is happening in the Middle East is the near total impunity that employers benefit from has led them to thinking they can treat their worker they way they want,” she says. “That includes torturing them, beating them, burning them, treating them like a subhuman, and abusing them sexually and psychologically.”
Listen to Audrey Guichon’s full interview with Charles Collins:
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