Filipina maid ends life by slashing veins

[joebloggs]

24yrs old! What happened to her, to make her take her own life?

A 24-year-old Filipina housemaid committed a suicide by using a kitchen knife to slash the veins of her hands at her employer’s house in Kuwait.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/regi...10-12-1.565929

[stevewool]

When me and Ems first started talking together, she was thinking of applying for work there. I did not like the idea at all, and I thank God she did not apply.

[grahamw48]

Not another one. Poor girl.

You can bet that this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Come on Phils govt. DO SOMETHING.

[Longweekend]

I spent 5 years working in Q8, the way they treat non Europeans is disgusting, I'm surprised there are not more suicides, there were always a lot of maids who took refuge in the Embassy from their employers...

[grahamw48]

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

If I'd said that, I'd have been accused of racism, bigotry, whatever...by those who've never set foot in Kuwait, of course.

[joebloggs]

I spent 5 years working in Q8, the way they treat non Europeans is disgusting, I'm surprised there are not more suicides, there were always a lot of maids who took refuge in the Embassy from their employers...

http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....way-housemaids

[Michael Parnham]

Poor girl! Women have no rights in Arab countries, as others have said before. The Philippines' government must put a stop to allowing these naive young ladies to apply for jobs in such places.

[Longweekend]

Michael there are so many domestic workers in the Middle East who send home much needed foreign currency and this money supports their families, I can't see the government stopping it.

[malolos]

Some of the workers in Spain are badly treated. All we can do is try to help ease the problem as they will not make an official complaint.

[Arthur Little]

Not another one. Poor girl.

Yes ... terrible tragedy! And I notice there's *another (similar) incident been reported on the same link Joe provided; again, it also concerned a Filipina housemaid (25) in Kuwait!

* actually happened nearly 4 years ago. Thankfully - due, it appears, to being discovered quickly - this girl's life was saved, though she'd been in a "critical" condition at the time.