July 19, 2018
"I loved you as a woman, but what you said about the Filipina housekeeper – underneath the skirt, behind your beautiful facade is rotten hidden" – terrified Chris Aganon
boycotting an influencer. whoever thinks that they have been arrested, they have been arrested for a while. #SondosAlqattan #slavery
– Pam for the Glam (@pamfortheglam) 20 July 2018
"Anyone who believes that a worker does not deserve at least a weekend, lost contact with reality # slavery ", scours user of the secular lioness @pamfortheglam.
OFW workers are not owned by anyone. They have the right to keep their pbadport and have a day off. I have watched many documentaries about OFW Filipino workers that they are abused and murdered. #StopSlavery #SondosAlQattan
– Jehan Masood (@jehan_masood) July 23, 2018
"I watched a lot of documentaries in which Filipino migrant workers are beaten and killed # StopbyRobstvo written Jehan Masood
Manufacturer of self-care products Chelsea Beautique has already removed the advertisement of Sondos on his page.
"We believe that all employees must provide conditions decent work, and similar views can not reflect the values of our brand, "- said on the company's official Twitter.
Photo: Instagram / @sondos_aq
The French fashion house Mr. Micallef reacts similarly. "The principles of Mrs. Alkattan do not correspond to our values," says a spokesman for the BBC
. later, MaxFactor Arabia, the mark Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido, South Korean House Study and Phyto.
Migrants in the Middle East
In Kuwait, 700,000 workers from other countries are hired for 4 million citizens. Many of them are Filipinos.
However, over the past year, Manila authorities have banned their citizens from traveling to this emirate after finding the corpse of a Filipino woman in the fridge of a city. Lebanese-Syrian couple residing in Kuwait. The girl's employers were later arrested in Damascus and deported to Kuwait.
This year, the Kuwaiti authorities granted legislative protection to foreign workers and since May, migrant workers from the Pacific archipelago have been returning to the monarchy in the Middle East. a quarter of a million Filipinos.
It is no wonder that Filipino human rights activists are particularly critical of Alkattan. Migrant workers' rights activists abroad Migrante International has apologized to bloggers.
"It would be nice if she flew to the Philippines and saw the conditions of poverty for those looking for work abroad.
Purchase and Sale and Intimidation
Filipino workers are struggling not only in Kuwait.
Last year, the BBC found a number of messages from Gulf countries in Facebook closed groups, where to use
As human rights organizers of The Migrant Rights Migrant Rights Organization, it is almost impossible to see how these "black employers" treat migrants, and the transfer of a servant from one person to another looks like often on a purchase On the other hand, such proposals in social networks allow workers to avoid aggressive or greedy employers.
This restriction of rights is the result of the "kafalah" system, prevalent throughout the Persian Gulf, which does not confer citizenship rights on foreign workers.
Outside the Middle East, migrant workers from Southeast Asia are also going through a difficult period. Thus, from 2010 to 2015, 90 cases of domestic abuse were recorded in Singapore
Last spring, in an island city-state, a couple was sentenced, dragging his housekeeper to her house.
Thelma Gavidan, who worked for Filimonian brides 40% of his weight and after the release of the oppression of the Singaporean couple weighed only 29 kg
The fact that the initiator of the 39, intimidation receives only three months imprisonment, his wife – three weeks and fine for a couple was 7 thousand dollars, with the