According to news reports out of Saudi Arabia, Saudi women are outraged that the government plans to allow Moroccan maids into the country to replace Filipina and Indonesian women, out of the belief ...

Kampala: The government of Uganda said on Friday it will stop sending housemaids to Saudi Arabia, eclipsing a deal between the two nations to ship workers to the wealthy Gulf nation amid complaints of ...

Indonesia is protesting Saudi Arabia’s execution this week of one of its citizens, a domestic worker, saying the kingdom failed to notify her family or the Indonesian government beforehand. Indonesia ...

Saudi Arabia has beheaded a Sri Lankan domestic worker for killing a baby in her care in 2005 in a case that has been widely condemned by rights groups. The maid, Rizana Nafeek, had denied killing the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kasthuri Munirathinam, a 55-year-old mother of four from southern India, was plunged into debt after borrowing money to marry off her daughters. Like many before her ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia are often subjected to abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious charges of theft or ...

Last month, the Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management government office declared the end of an assisted repatriation of Ethiopian migrants’ programme, which had brought home more than 130,000 citizens.

RIYADH, July 9 (Reuters) - An Asian rights group called on Monday for clemency for a Sri Lankan maid who faces execution over the death of a baby in her charge in Saudi Arabia. Rizana Nafeek was found ...

Saudi authorities beheaded Monday a Nepali housemaid convicted of murdering a two-year-old boy by slitting his throat, the interior ministry said. The house maid was found guilty of "slaughtering with ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has protested to Saudi Arabia over the execution of an Indonesian maid, convicted of murdering her employer who a workers' rights group said was trying to rape her at the ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - After six months as a virtual prisoner, Mona took the first chance she got to escape the family she waited on hand and foot as a maid without ever being paid. "I was being ...

Kasthuri Munirathinam, a 55-year-old mother of four from southern India, was plunged into debt after borrowing money to marry off her daughters. Like millions before her, she was recruited through an ...