Bangladesh’s 90pc female migrants at risky homes in ME

[Black_cats]

Bangladesh’s 90pc female migrants at risky homes in ME
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Published: 00:48, Feb 03,2019

http://www.newagebd.net/article/63640/bangladeshs-90pc-female-migrants-at-risky-homes-in-me

Since 2015, about four lakh female workers of Bangladesh went to Middle Eastern countries as domestic workers and most of them became victims of sexual abuse and torture.

They make up 90 per cent of the country’s female migrants.

During the same period, about 46,000 other female workers, making up 10 per cent of female migrants from Bangladesh got various jobs other than as housemaids in countries that offered better working conditions, according to the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment.

In 2015, Bangladesh began sending more female workers to Saudi Arabia after Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines stopped sending their female works to the KSA amid widespread abuses by employers.

In the light of this experience the EWOE Ministry decided to encourage female workers to take more attractive jobs abroad.

EWOE ministry joint secretary for employment Jahangir Alam told New Age that they were trying to gradually scale down sending female domestic workers.

He said that some Bangladeshi female migrants were working abroad as apparel workers and cleaners at hospitals, supermarkets and other institutions.

According to Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training, the largest number of Bangladeshi female migrants returned home as victims of sexual abuse and torture without getting their wages.

A substantial number of Bangladeshi female migrants are working in Jordan, Lebanon, the UAE, Oman and Qatar, the BMET officials said.

On January 24, the EWOE ministry at a meeting reviewed the state of implementation of the prime minister’s directives to it and her polls pledges.

The prime minister asked the EWOE Ministry to boost female migration after providing them skill by extending the tenures of training.

Officials told the meeting that 37 technical training centres provided six-month durations’ training on garment trade to female workers.

In addition, Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Mohila Technical Training Centre provided 480 hours’ housekeeping training to 30 female workers in collaboration with City and Guilds, they told the meeting.

Migrant rights activists urged the government of Bangladesh to send female migrants for jobs other than as domestic helps.

WARBE Development Foundation chairman Syed Saiful Haque said that would never be possible to protect the female workers at employers homes abroad.

He called for exploring the East Asian countries’ job market for female workers.
Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Programme chairman Shakirul Islam said that the government should evaluate the female migrants for taking the next step.

He also said that the state should set aside sufficient funds for grooming skilled female workers.

 

[GHALIB]

Bangladesh’s 90pc female migrants at risky homes in ME
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Published: 00:48, Feb 03,2019

http://www.newagebd.net/article/63640/bangladeshs-90pc-female-migrants-at-risky-homes-in-me

Since 2015, about four lakh female workers of Bangladesh went to Middle Eastern countries as domestic workers and most of them became victims of sexual abuse and torture.

They make up 90 per cent of the country’s female migrants.

During the same period, about 46,000 other female workers, making up 10 per cent of female migrants from Bangladesh got various jobs other than as housemaids in countries that offered better working conditions, according to the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment.

In 2015, Bangladesh began sending more female workers to Saudi Arabia after Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines stopped sending their female works to the KSA amid widespread abuses by employers.

In the light of this experience the EWOE Ministry decided to encourage female workers to take more attractive jobs abroad.

EWOE ministry joint secretary for employment Jahangir Alam told New Age that they were trying to gradually scale down sending female domestic workers.

He said that some Bangladeshi female migrants were working abroad as apparel workers and cleaners at hospitals, supermarkets and other institutions.

According to Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training, the largest number of Bangladeshi female migrants returned home as victims of sexual abuse and torture without getting their wages.

A substantial number of Bangladeshi female migrants are working in Jordan, Lebanon, the UAE, Oman and Qatar, the BMET officials said.

On January 24, the EWOE ministry at a meeting reviewed the state of implementation of the prime minister’s directives to it and her polls pledges.

The prime minister asked the EWOE Ministry to boost female migration after providing them skill by extending the tenures of training.

Officials told the meeting that 37 technical training centres provided six-month durations’ training on garment trade to female workers.

In addition, Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Mohila Technical Training Centre provided 480 hours’ housekeeping training to 30 female workers in collaboration with City and Guilds, they told the meeting.

Migrant rights activists urged the government of Bangladesh to send female migrants for jobs other than as domestic helps.

WARBE Development Foundation chairman Syed Saiful Haque said that would never be possible to protect the female workers at employers homes abroad.

He called for exploring the East Asian countries’ job market for female workers.
Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Programme chairman Shakirul Islam said that the government should evaluate the female migrants for taking the next step.

He also said that the state should set aside sufficient funds for grooming skilled female workers.

very sad ,
workers are treated very badly in gulf countries .

 

[Bengal71]

BD should put a total ban on women going to work in the middle east, not only Saudi, UAE and the likes, the ban should be applied on every Arab country. I hate this fvcken government for this policy of sending women workers to this cesspool of Arabian wasteland where barbarism is the norm. Khinzir are better than the Arabs.

Our mothafoka presstitutes and the intellecprostitues are doing a disservice to the country not raising their voice about this.

 

[Bilal9]

Bangladesh’s 90pc female migrants at risky homes in ME
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Published: 00:48, Feb 03,2019

http://www.newagebd.net/article/63640/bangladeshs-90pc-female-migrants-at-risky-homes-in-me

Since 2015, about four lakh female workers of Bangladesh went to Middle Eastern countries as domestic workers and most of them became victims of sexual abuse and torture.

They make up 90 per cent of the country’s female migrants.

During the same period, about 46,000 other female workers, making up 10 per cent of female migrants from Bangladesh got various jobs other than as housemaids in countries that offered better working conditions, according to the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment.

In 2015, Bangladesh began sending more female workers to Saudi Arabia after Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines stopped sending their female works to the KSA amid widespread abuses by employers.

In the light of this experience the EWOE Ministry decided to encourage female workers to take more attractive jobs abroad.

EWOE ministry joint secretary for employment Jahangir Alam told New Age that they were trying to gradually scale down sending female domestic workers.

He said that some Bangladeshi female migrants were working abroad as apparel workers and cleaners at hospitals, supermarkets and other institutions.

According to Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training, the largest number of Bangladeshi female migrants returned home as victims of sexual abuse and torture without getting their wages.

A substantial number of Bangladeshi female migrants are working in Jordan, Lebanon, the UAE, Oman and Qatar, the BMET officials said.

On January 24, the EWOE ministry at a meeting reviewed the state of implementation of the prime minister’s directives to it and her polls pledges.

The prime minister asked the EWOE Ministry to boost female migration after providing them skill by extending the tenures of training.

Officials told the meeting that 37 technical training centres provided six-month durations’ training on garment trade to female workers.

In addition, Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Mohila Technical Training Centre provided 480 hours’ housekeeping training to 30 female workers in collaboration with City and Guilds, they told the meeting.

Migrant rights activists urged the government of Bangladesh to send female migrants for jobs other than as domestic helps.

WARBE Development Foundation chairman Syed Saiful Haque said that would never be possible to protect the female workers at employers homes abroad.

He called for exploring the East Asian countries’ job market for female workers.
Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Programme chairman Shakirul Islam said that the government should evaluate the female migrants for taking the next step.

He also said that the state should set aside sufficient funds for grooming skilled female workers.

If they don't take concrete steps - AL will end up with eggs on their faces with this. We don't HAVE to send women as maids overseas. There are plenty of garments jobs at home.

 

[TopCat]

If they don't take concrete steps - AL will end up with eggs on their faces with this. We don't HAVE to send women as maids overseas. There are plenty of garments jobs at home.

The market should be kept open. Its all about demand and supply. Maid job is nowhere an easy job. Neither in BD nor in Saudi. Our women masters are more abusive than saudi masters. I can guarantee that.

 

[Bengal71]

The market should be kept open. Its all about demand and supply. Maid job is nowhere an easy job. Neither in BD nor in Saudi. Our women masters are more abusive than saudi masters. I can guarantee that.

No they are not.

There is a clearcut difference in mentality. Saudis and Arabs don't rape foreign maids because they are rapist perverts. They are a people who are accustomed to slavery for centuries and only recently in the 1960s they abolished slavery under US pressure. But slavery is ingrained in their mentality. They consider any female workers working in their households as slaves and as per Islamic shariah they believe it is halal to have sex with slaves. This is the rational behind their rapist attitude towards Bangladeshi, Thai, Finipino and formerly Indonesian maids. This is the exact reason why they beat and torture them like animals, lock them up without food and water for days, even weeks, this is the reason they don't hesitate to scald them with hot water, throw them off from tall buildings. The desert waste land is a hell hole inhabited by the worst human scum who look like human from the outside but worse than animals in the inside.

Watch from 1:10, this was an Ethiopian or Sudanese black woman.

 

[UKBengali]

No they are not.

There is a clearcut difference in mentality. Saudis and Arabs don't rape foreign maids because they are rapist perverts. They are a people who are accustomed to slavery for centuries and only recently in the 1960s they abolished slavery under US pressure. But slavery is ingrained in their mentality. They consider any female workers working in their households as slaves and as per Islamic shariah they believe it is halal to have sex with slaves. This is the rational behind their rapist attitude towards Bangladeshi, Thai, Finipino and formerly Indonesian maids. This is the exact reason why they beat and torture them like animals, lock them up without food and water for days, even weeks, this is the reason they don't hesitate to scald them with hot water, throw them off from tall buildings. The desert waste land is a hell hole inhabited by the worst human scum who look like human from the outside but worse than animals in the inside.

Watch from 1:10, this was an Ethiopian or Sudanese black woman.

BD needs to immediately ban all maids from going to any Gulf country.
Also if the SEZs being built are a success then it can look at banning any unskilled person from toiling in the deserts of the ME as well.

 

[Black_cats]

No they are not.

There is a clearcut difference in mentality. Saudis and Arabs don't rape foreign maids because they are rapist perverts. They are a people who are accustomed to slavery for centuries and only recently in the 1960s they abolished slavery under US pressure. But slavery is ingrained in their mentality. They consider any female workers working in their households as slaves and as per Islamic shariah they believe it is halal to have sex with slaves. This is the rational behind their rapist attitude towards Bangladeshi, Thai, Finipino and formerly Indonesian maids. This is the exact reason why they beat and torture them like animals, lock them up without food and water for days, even weeks, this is the reason they don't hesitate to scald them with hot water, throw them off from tall buildings. The desert waste land is a hell hole inhabited by the worst human scum who look like human from the outside but worse than animals in the inside.

Watch from 1:10, this was an Ethiopian or Sudanese black woman.

Are you Muslim? Do you have any idea even how to treat slaves? Even according to Islamic Shairah you can not sex with anyone by force even with salves. In Islam even during time of prophet Muhammad buying and selling of spaves were abolished at marketplace. Only source of slaves was after war captives. Primary reason was that time woman and children would be vulnerable if they are left alone. They would have no source of income to cover their expenses. But Quran time after time asked Muslim to free slaves.

 

[TopCat]

Are you Muslim? Do you have any idea even how to treat slaves? Even according to Islamic Shairah you can not sex with anyone by force even with salves. In Islam even during time of prophet Muhammad buying and selling of spaves were abolished at marketplace. Only source of slaves was after war captives. Primary reason was that time woman and children would be vulnerable if they are left alone. They would have no source of income to cover their expenses. But Quran time after time asked Muslim to free slaves.

There are also voluntary slavery even was present in 19th century Bengal. You can find some contract in Dhaka museum.
Most Muslim elites had slaves used to be called Golam and Badhi.

 

[Black_cats]

There are also voluntary slavery even was present in 19th century Bengal. You can find some contract in Dhaka museum.
Most Muslim elites had slaves used to be called Golam and Badhi.

Did that follow Islam rules and regulations? I dont think so!!

 

[TopCat]

Did that follow Islam rules and regulations? I dont think so!!

Islam did not forbid slavery.

 

[Bengal71]

BD needs to immediately ban all maids from going to any Gulf country.
Also if the SEZs being built are a success then it can look at banning any unskilled person from toiling in the deserts of the ME as well.

That is exactly what Indonesia did few years ago after a massive diplomatic spat. We need to follow Indonesia in this regard.

Are you Muslim? Do you have any idea even how to treat slaves? Even according to Islamic Shairah you can not sex with anyone by force even with salves. In Islam even during time of prophet Muhammad buying and selling of spaves were abolished at marketplace. Only source of slaves was after war captives. Primary reason was that time woman and children would be vulnerable if they are left alone. They would have no source of income to cover their expenses. But Quran time after time asked Muslim to free slaves.

Oh please, I know Islamic shariah very well, I was a hardcore ultra Islamist. I don't want to get into a shar'ii discussion, but please know that sex with slaves is totally halal in Islam. They children born out of sex with the slaves have very demeaning inheritance rights.

Even though Islam gave the slaves some rights, the actual slavery practiced in the Islamic world never gave the slaves nowhere near those rights. There are still pockets of places in Yemen and Somalia where they are still slaves. The way they practise is like they bring in males on rent to sleep with the female slave so she would get pregnant, when she gives birth, the child grows up a little and then the master sells the child. There is litterally no difference between the right of these slaves and cattles. Exactly like our farmers rear cows for milk and calf which they can sell to make money.

The rose tinted glass through which Muslims see these draconian laws is the result of ulama painting a false picture which spread because of mass media. Most of these people blabber such things about Islam gave many rights to slaves are largely the ignorant ones who know little. I went through that phase, climbed up the ladder, became an ultra Islamist, seen it all and then fell from grace. I don't need a lecture on it.


Watch from 27:00, better yet watch the whole documentary.

 

[TopCat]

That is exactly what Indonesia did few years ago after a massive diplomatic spat. We need to follow Indonesia in this regard.



Oh please, I know Islamic shariah very well, I was a hardcore ultra Islamist. I don't want to get into a shar'ii discussion, but please know that sex with slaves is totally halal in Islam. They children born out of sex with the slaves have very demeaning inheritance rights.

Even though Islam gave the slaves some rights, the actual slavery practiced in the Islamic world never gave the slaves nowhere near those rights. There are still pockets of places in Yemen and Somalia where they are still slaves. The way they practise is like they bring in males on rent to sleep with the female slave so she would get pregnant, when she gives birth, the child grows up a little and then the master sells the child. There is litterally no difference between the right of these slaves and cattles. Exactly like our farmers rear cows for milk and calf which they can sell to make money.

The rose tinted glass through which Muslims see these draconian laws is the result of ulama painting a false picture which spread because of mass media. Most of these people blabber such things about Islam gave many rights to slaves are largely the ignorant ones who know little. I went through that phase, climbed up the ladder, became an ultra Islamist, seen it all and then fell from grace. I don't need a lecture on it.

Islam do forbid people to be chained from African jungle and sell them to America. Most of the people equate Islamic permitted slavery with African slavery.
Islam allowed two kind of slavery.
1) War booties. Sex allowed
2) Bonded voluntary slavery. It was much sought job when food was scarce. Better to have a fixed job as slaves than going hungry.

 

[Black_cats]

That is exactly what Indonesia did few years ago after a massive diplomatic spat. We need to follow Indonesia in this regard.



Oh please, I know Islamic shariah very well, I was a hardcore ultra Islamist. I don't want to get into a shar'ii discussion, but please know that sex with slaves is totally halal in Islam. They children born out of sex with the slaves have very demeaning inheritance rights.

Even though Islam gave the slaves some rights, the actual slavery practiced in the Islamic world never gave the slaves nowhere near those rights. There are still pockets of places in Yemen and Somalia where they are still slaves. The way they practise is like they bring in males on rent to sleep with the female slave so she would get pregnant, when she gives birth, the child grows up a little and then the master sells the child. There is litterally no difference between the right of these slaves and cattles. Exactly like our farmers rear cows for milk and calf which they can sell to make money.

The rose tinted glass through which Muslims see these draconian laws is the result of ulama painting a false picture which spread because of mass media. Most of these people blabber such things about Islam gave many rights to slaves are largely the ignorant ones who know little. I went through that phase, climbed up the ladder, became an ultra Islamist, seen it all and then fell from grace. I don't need a lecture on it.

No where I said slave owner can not have sex with female slaves but they can not force her. Another thing I said randomly you can not make anyone slaves. If the Arabs are doing it, it is from their pervert nature not due to Islam. If they want to have sex with anyone claiming to be slave, they must know what are the requirements to be slaves!!

 

[Bengal71]

No where I said slave owner can not have sex with female slaves but they can not force her. Another thing I said randomly you can not make anyone slaves. If the Arabs are doing it, it is from their pervert nature not due to Islam. If they want to have sex with anyone claiming to be slave, they must know what are the requirements to be slaves!!

And I was not even talking about what Islam says about slavery. I was talking about how the Muslims, specially the Arabs practiced slavery and the effects of that on these maids from poor countries.

Islam do forbid people to be chained from African jungle and sell them to America. Most of the people equate Islamic permitted slavery with African slavery.
Islam allowed two kind of slavery.
1) War booties. Sex allowed
2) Bonded voluntary slavery. It was much sought job when food was scarce. Better to have a fixed job as slaves than going hungry.

My discussion was not about what Islam actually teaches, rather how Muslims practiced it and the effects of it on the salves of the old times and the effects of it on Arab mentality and in turn how the maids form poor countries are affected.

Consider the suffering of those thousands, perhaps millions of people who were brought in chains, had their genitals removed, turned into eunuchs for the sole purpose of guarding the harems of sultans and ameer and umarah. No amount of whitewashing citing the Shariah will correct the wrong that was done to those poor souls.