Welcome to HK, we do it too
Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the “slavery-like” conditions faced by thousands of Indonesian women who work in Hong Kong as domestic staff, accusing authorities of “inexcusable” inaction. There are also thousands of Filipina working in the island as nannies and domestic workers.
Hong Kong is home to nearly 300,000 maids from mainly southeast Asian countries, predominantly Indonesia and the Philippines, with growing criticism from rights groups over their treatment.
Its report, “Exploited for Profit, Failed by Governments”, comes just weeks after a Hong Kong couple were jailed for a shocking string of attacks on their Indonesian domestic helper, including burning her with an iron and beating her with a bike chain.
Domestic workers are legally required to live with their employers and are “tightly controlled by their local placement agency and often by their employer” the report said.
They are afraid to speak out, fearing their contracts will be terminated, in which case they have to leave within two weeks, or the agency demands another recruitment fee.
http://www.mb.com.ph/hong-kong-domestic-workers-treated-as-slaves-amnesty/
Atleast they now have some company. The decent and humane treatment of others should happen not because others are telling and reminding you about it but because that's the way you want it for yourself and your near and dear ones and that's ths way it should be for the others too (including maids and other workers). The change has to come from within and soon and not because others have now started pointing out to your primitive policies
Finally someone showed some guts to speak out...U rock , ,Amnesty International
Good, I am bored with Qatar being hated by the Guardian.