A WOMAN who was caught filming her housemaid falling from a seventh-floor balcony as she tried to flee her apartment in Kuwait, has been jailed. She was shouting “hold me, hold me” to the woman filming, who later posted the footage on social media. In Kuwait, there are around 600,000 domestic workers, mainly migrants to the oil rich gulf states, the independent reported. According to Stepfeed, millions of domestic workers across the Arab world are deprived of their most basic rights, given that they’re governed by the kafala (sponsorship) system. HRW says the kafala system “remains a major obstacle to domestic workers’ rights” despite some progress having been made in 2015 to protect them.

Source: Ethiopian News October 03, 2018 03:00 UTC