Officially almost 60,000 Nepalese women are now working in the Middle East but the unofficial estimate is closer to 200,000. Many of them are under 30 years old and will be directly affected by the new ban.
The government's been under growing pressure to do more to protect its workers. Women employed in the informal sector部門 as part of a household家庭 are very vulnerable脆弱的. Nepal's Embassies in the region say they deal with numerous眾多的 cases of alleged據稱 physical or sexual abuse, as well as complaints about unpaid wages工資 and terrible conditions.
Many run safe houses to support women who flee逃跑 their employer's homes. It's only 18 months since the government ended a 12-year ban on all women workers to the Gulf隔閡, 海灣. That was imposed強制 after a young woman working in Kuwait committed suicide. Now they're adopting this partial部分 ban in the hope that older women might be less at risk. Nepal has a high unemployment rate失業率 and the government is trying to strike a balance取得一個平衡 between protection and allowing women to pursue opportunities.
Other countries face the same dilemma困境. Two months ago, Kenya banned its citizens from working in the Middle East because, it said, increasing numbers were being mistreated虐待. Last year, Indonesia introduced a ban on women working as maids女傭 in the region. That followed numerous cases of abuse and the execution執行 of an Indonesian maid who was accused of killing her former employer.
The government's been under growing pressure to do more to protect its workers. Women employed in the informal sector部門 as part of a household家庭 are very vulnerable脆弱的. Nepal's Embassies in the region say they deal with numerous眾多的 cases of alleged據稱 physical or sexual abuse, as well as complaints about unpaid wages工資 and terrible conditions.
Many run safe houses to support women who flee逃跑 their employer's homes. It's only 18 months since the government ended a 12-year ban on all women workers to the Gulf隔閡, 海灣. That was imposed強制 after a young woman working in Kuwait committed suicide. Now they're adopting this partial部分 ban in the hope that older women might be less at risk. Nepal has a high unemployment rate失業率 and the government is trying to strike a balance取得一個平衡 between protection and allowing women to pursue opportunities.
Other countries face the same dilemma困境. Two months ago, Kenya banned its citizens from working in the Middle East because, it said, increasing numbers were being mistreated虐待. Last year, Indonesia introduced a ban on women working as maids女傭 in the region. That followed numerous cases of abuse and the execution執行 of an Indonesian maid who was accused of killing her former employer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2012/08/120813_witn_nepal_women.shtml
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