we all have seen the inhuman treatment of one of our sister by the lebanese thug. In reality, many women take far worse treatments at the hands of the arab keepers such as rape and beating. being a maid exposes defenseless girls to dangers like we saw, sexual harassment and mistreatment. But Despite the public knowledge of such atrocities, many women line up to take the role of being maid for arab keepers in a hope of becoming one day rich.

ethiopians current socio and economic complexities has exposed young and adult girls to expose themselves to one of the worst dangers women face in their life. on one side, there is extrem poverty in ethiopia thanks to the begger weyannes mismanagement and open corruption that favours foriegners, one ethnic group and those who sell their soul to Meles and co. on the other hand there is this get rich quick and impress your friends and neighbours culture that draws women to the recruitment in a hope of returning one day with gold necklesses, big bucks ($) etc. many of those who returned after 5-10 years of ugly maid life don't tell the truth and the attrocities they recieve. instead they portray themselves as rich, resourseful and successful not knowing that they are falsifying reality for their short lived ego of impressing others. Only few brave ones came out to the open and tell the public about rape and atrocities. a couple of them actually made a movie about it which i believe must have been seen by many people or at least created public awarenes.

This way or the other, the current ruling junta (meles and Co) will not go away from responsibility because first, they are the ones who are creating poverty in the country that makes people hopless and take risky adventures, 2nd - the weyane junta had shown time and again that it doesn't care about such abuse. the humiliation of one of our girl outside the ethiopian embassy is a testimony to that. While the arabs attitude towards the poor and defenseless is known, no amount of letters, petitions and demonstrations to their public officials will change their attitude. what need to change is the government that is creating poverty and yet lie about it by telling the opposite (double digit growth). the humulation of a female in other cultures will not be taken lightly. only amongst us (ethiopians) is taken lightly. this event should have been a uniting event accross many disssenters. but our in-action to this gives another warranty for more abuses and humiliation. the question is where will it end? i guess, it will never end

Aqatariwa welfare queen,

the first obvious persons to blame is the abusers themselves. The second factor to blame is money. When these maids shuttle back and forth from these rich Arab countries with loads of money, it entices others to do the same.

I know your Aqatari nature will naturally point the finger at the government, but we all know that these are adults who have chosen to travel to earn a living. There are maids from a more prosperous nation than Ethiopia who are traveling to those Arab countries to work as maids. Until we get to a point were Ethiopia can some how match the pay scale of those rich Arab nations, many will find their way to those countries.

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What is the purpose of the [deleted] consulate in Beirut? his job is to assist poor Ethiopian women and men in their time of their need and the fact that the woman was abused and humiliated infront of the embassy is insult to the nation.....This is point number one.

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What is the purpose of the [deleted] consulate in Beirut? his job is to assist poor Ethiopian women and men in their time of their need and the fact that the woman was abused and humiliated infront of the embassy is insult to the nation.....This is point number one.

Deqi-Arawit the worthless shabia pig,

if the Embassy was aware of what was happening outside the embassy, they should be held accountable and prosecuted for inaction, but in a country of dictatorship, even that is not guaranteed.

What the fu@ck was our Weyannie embarrassed diplomat was doing on Beirut? Is he shop to beg for hard currency for Weyannies? Just read what Arabs think about the black person:

The Guardian's journalist Brian Whitaker wrote on the race taboo, an excerpt:

Racism is a worldwide phenomenon. In some countries it's met with disapproval, in others with denial. The A to Z of ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East embraces Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, Baha'is, Berbers, Chaldeans, Copts, Druzes, Ibadis, Ismailis, Jews, Kurds, Maronites, Sahrawis, Tuareq, Turkmen, Yazidis and Zaidis (by no means an exhaustive list), and yet serious discussion of ethnic/religious diversity and its place in society is a long-standing taboo. If the existence of non-Arab or non-Muslim groups is acknowledged at all, it is usually only to declare how wonderfully everyone gets along. [2]

Mona Eltahawy is a columnist for Egypt's Al Masry Al Youm and Qatar's Al Arab wrote in the New York Times "Racism The Arab world's dirty secret" she cites witnessing to racist attacks by Arab Egyptians on blacks when no one objects to it, she admits: We are a racist people in Egypt and we are in deep denial about it. On my Facebook page, I blamed racism for my argument and an Egyptian man wrote to deny that we are racists and used as his proof a program on Egyptian Radio featuring Sudanese songs and poetry! Our silence over racism not only destroys the warmth and hospitality we are proud of as Egyptians, it has deadly consequences.

She concludes that nothing but racism is behind police cracking down on 5,000 Sudanese refugees, or beating to death many of them including women and children and what she calls "bloody statistics in Egypt.

She continues on her witnessing: "The racism I saw on the Cairo Metro has an echo in the Arab world at large, where the suffering in Darfur goes ignored because its victims are black and because those who are creating the misery in Darfur are not Americans or Israelis and we only pay attention when America and Israel behave badly."

Lamenting: "We love to cry 'Islamophobia' when we talk about the way Muslim minorities are treated in the West and yet we never stop to consider how we treat minorities and the most vulnerable among us."

She cited how instances in the United States, where Arabs/Muslims have been – rarely – treated bad, yet, most have interfered against this, whereas in Egypt (as well as in the Arab world) the racist deafening silence had been horrendously telling about the Arab racist society.[3]
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Arab_world

Suppose you have a young daughter seeking summer employment and you find out that the company that wants to hire her has a very bad reputation for mistreating its employees, would you allow her to take the job despite the risks of physical and sexual abuse ?

What if another one of your daughters who had worked there the previous summer committed suicide to escape the unbearable slave-like conditions at the company ?

Revolution,
No matter what, this how an Arab treats you. if not, take your children for schooling to Mecca and try it. like Eden, Eritrean and nostaligia.
An Arab only needs to see your skin colour to make a decision.

Such abuse is not unique to Ethiopian maids. $12,000 a month(If true) is a tempting income for many to travel to these countries.

I bet this bad news made your day bright..! What kind of people are you really. The question is about honour and dignity. Damn….! As far as I am concerned there is no reason to live a life knowing that ones own sisters are treated like the way they are treated by bunch of losers who are not even fit to clean their shoes and this is, no matter what ever they decide. No one has the right to take away their right for pride and dignity. That is the reason people are arguing if you have not still figured it out Qondaf ag..me Sahsah.

Eight Eritrean maids poisoned in the UAE

By Benjamin Joffe-Walt | July 14, 2009


Eight Eritrean domestic workers are believed to have been murdered by poisoning in the United Arab Emirates.

Sources at the Eritrean embassy in the UAE told the Gulf News that eight female maids had been poisoned by a compatriot maid last Wednesday in an apartment in Sharjah, the largest city in the third largest emirate of the country.

The woman accused of killing the eight domestic workers is said to be held in the emirate's central jail, but Sharjah police have publicly denied reports of the multiple murders, calling them "just rumors."

The embassy sources said the police had reported the incident to them, but were still investigating the motive behind the killings.

The sources claimed the bodies of the eight murdered women had been transferred to the morgues at two local hospitals. Officials at both hospitals reported that no bodies had been brought to the morgue, but that it was possible the bodies had been sent for forensic examinations.

The women are understood to have been living together in an apartment in the Abu Shagara neighborhood of the city.

The UAE has received extensive criticism over the years from human rights and labor organizations over the conditions for foreign workers in the country.

Domestic workers, which make up a significant proportion of the UAE's predominately foreign population, have complained of sub-standard housing, lack of medical care, abuse and non-payment of wages.

The average Emirati household had 10 members in 2008, including domestic workers and drivers. The average monthly wage last year for such a household was the equivalent of about U.S. $12,800.

The government announced new regulations two years ago requiring holiday, medical care and registered salaries for all foreign domestic workers in the country. A conflict resolution unit was also set up to resolve disputes between employees and workers.

"This is a category of workers that are extremely vulnerable because there are no labor laws that apply to them," Ibrahim Awad, Director of the International Migration Program at the International Labor Organization, told The Media Line. "In most countries migrant domestic workers are not covered by domestic labor laws because their workplace is a household. This presents a very big challenge."

"International instruments of human rights apply to domestic workers and there are regulations in the UAE that ensure that domestic workers are paid their wages," Awad continued. "By law, passports and documents cannot be withheld from migrant workers, for example, but the degree of enforcement varies. This presents a particular problem for domestic workers because labor inspectors cannot get access to their workplaces as they work in private homes."

The International Labor Organization plans to push international standards or labor recommendations for domestic laborers in their annual conference next year.

The United States recently placed the country on a watch list of countries with poor human trafficking records.

Eritrean women are regularly trafficked via Djibouti, Egypt and Somalia for domestic servitude, particularly to the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

The Eritrean government banned its citizens from traveling to Lebanon in May last year following the deaths of a number of Eritrean domestic workers in the country. The ban remains in effect.

Eritrean woman “unlucky”Maid gets 1-year jail for theft in Qatar….
Jun 10
Posted by Adal voice of Eritrean's
.By Nour Abuzant
Click Original gulf-times.com NEWS
An African housemaid has been convicted of stealing items from her employer’s house and awarded a year’s imprisonment and subsequent deportation.
The Eritrean woman was “unlucky” to be caught when she opened her luggage in front of her sponsor after her flight was delayed. She was scheduled to leave Qatar for good in August 2009.
As she opened the luggage, she picked up in a hurry a sachet containing ornaments in front of the sponsor, who became suspicious of her behaviour.
The sponsor searched the bag and found items that his wife had earlier reported missing, including clothes, a camera and money.
The housemaid told the interrogators that she got the items from the sponsor’s wife.
The judge said that the sponsor had the right to search the bag of the maid in case of suspicion.
The maid, 29, has to leave the country after serving the punishment.
Cop convictedof using force to get confession
A policeman has been convicted of torturing and using force to “squeeze a confession” from five workers in a computer theft case.