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Gulf:
Manpower agencies and women's power
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| Misery
at home forces Nepali women domestics in the Gulf to endure abuse |
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July
2004
Increasingly
desperate Nepali women are fleeing conflict and hardship at home to work
as domestics in the Gulf even though they know about the abuse and exploitation
they are likely to face.
There
are many levels of mistreatment: daughters pressured to leave homes to
earn money, the low status of women in the family and the community, the
pimps who dupe them, the border guards who need to be paid off and finally
the employers in the Gulf who overwork, beat or rape them.
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Three
years ago, when Kani Sherpa came home in a casket from Kuwait, her suffering
and death was reported widely in the Nepali media. Kani was employed as
a domestic in Kuwait. She was raped and beaten almost every day, and when
she finally attempted to go to the police, her employer pushed her off
a balcony. The Kuwaiti man was never tried.
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