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Rasheed has a report in The Christian Science Monitor on the case of the Indonesian maids abused by their employers in Saudi Arabia. I would say “shocking” except that we’ve heard so many terrible cases and Pinays still line up to be maids in Saudi. These horrors happen and will continue to happen because as long as we export humans out of poverty and need, we’re not going to have the balls to stand up to anyone. This is not covered by my world domination theory, which assumes that we hang on to pride and dignity.

“”We continue to hear of abuses being committed against migrant
domestic workers as employers do not change that much in terms of
negative attitudes toward domestic helpers,” says Ellene Sana, the
head of the Center for Migrant Advocacy in Manila. “Domestic workers
are considered virtual slaves by employers who feel that they can
ill-treat them as they please, without the slightest remorse.”

“The fate of abused workers in Saudi Arabia is further complicated by
the fact that labor-exporting countries in Asia, pressured by growing
populations, feel an obligation to send larger and larger numbers of
workers overseas in search of work. This has caused many of these
governments not to press to hard concerning abuses against their
workers out of fear that protesting too much could offend Saudi
Arabia and other Gulf countries.”