Former domestic workers tell of the many abuses suffered while working in the Middle East. In 2016, Mary Kibwana, who worked as maid in Jordan, returned to Kenya with 70% of her body burned. Kibwana ...
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Lebanon, a Kenyan maid has bleach poured over her head as punishment for cleaning the bathroom too slowly by an employer who threatens to send her home in a ...
HONG KONG -- It's been a tough year for Hong Kong. The stock market is down. Property prices have plunged. Companies announce new layoffs every week, and newspapers keep a depressing tally of the job ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns that the platforms were being used to trade and sell maids in the Mideast.