For decades, human rights violations committed by employers against foreign house workers in Middle Eastern countries have been reported on a regular basis, urging changes in employment laws. The latest violation was of 19-years old Beatrice Waruguru, a Kenyan citizen, who had arrived in the Gulf country several years ago to work for a Saudi family. Postmortem on Beatrice Waruguru, 21, who died in Saudi Arabia shows she was strangled ...
![Ethiopian domestic workers who were dismissed by their employers gather with their belongings outside their country’s embassy in Hazmiyeh, east of Beirut, on June 24, 2020. - Around 250,000 migrants -- usually women -- work as housekeepers, nannies and carers in Lebanese homes, a large proportion Ethiopian and some for as little as $150 a month. None are protected by labour law. [Image: AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/2020-06/Maids%20in%20Lebanon.jpg?h=ae76ad4a&itok=_8wsHyTD "Ethiopian domestic workers who were dismissed by their employers gather with their belongings outside their country’s embassy in Hazmiyeh, east of Beirut, on June 24, 2020. - Around 250,000 migrants -- usually women -- work as housekeepers, nannies and carers in Lebanese homes, a large proportion Ethiopian and some for as little as $150 a month. None are protected by labour law. [Image: AFP]")
