From our investigation into local labor exploitation in Saudi Arabia

In most countries, work as a home worker or nanny is a relatively safe profession.

As we walked in Kenya and Uganda, we heard many changes about the same horror story from the same horror story to far-sighted and poor city neighborhoods: Young, healthy women set off for local jobs in Saudi Arabia, only beaten or back in coffins.

At least 274 kenyan, women in all five years have died in all of Saudi Arabia. Last year, at least 55 people died, died twice as much as the previous year.

Autopsies just bought more questions. The body of a woman in Uganda showed extensive rotten and power signs, but the death was “natural” labeled. We found a surprising number of women who fell from roofs, balconies or a drop in a cavator in a situation.

How can this be? It was hardly some dark industry that was hard with flight players. East African women are employed by thousands and are prepared by well-established companies, and then Saudi Arabia is sent to Saudi Arabia through Uganda, Kenyan and Saudi governments.

Workers’ lawyers have accused the laws of archeic Saudi labor laws for a long time. But we thought it was something else in the game. We have tried to figure out about this for about a year.

Employees often become a nightmare.

We met with more than 90 employees and their families, and when we could do, we carefully analyzed employment agreements.

We found that women from Kenya and Ugandan were insulted with their promises of better salaries and opportunities to Saudi Arabia.

Recruitment agencies and their brokers provide miserable information about the salary and sign the contracts they cannot read.

Women like some agencies products. Agency sites offer Saudi customers employees “For Sale”. We saw an option to collect a click.

When women come to the kingdom, employers often confiscate their passports and belongings. Kenyan household workers in Saudi Arabia work for $ 250 or thus a month. But many women said, “I got you,” said us that their new cartridges deny them or wage.

Strong people make money from these women.

Using employment contracts, when we can find them, police reports or legal documents, we started to look at the companies he won from these women.

Corporate records and securities, including officials who can protect these workers, took us strong people.

In Kenya and Uganda and their families, we found their stakes in employees of employees.

For example, Fabian Kyule Muli is a member of the Kenyan Parliament and the owner of an agency sent to Saudi Arabia. The Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Working Committee is a work that can adopt the laws of protecting employees. The committee was the champion for sending more people to Saudi Arabia and the workers are frustrated there.

Members of the royal family, including the royal family offspring in Saudi Arabia, were large investors in agencies that provide local workers. Saudi officials also hold high-level positions with personnel institutions.

Despite the fact that the evidence of abuse for years, leaders, including Kenya President William Ruto, promised to send more workers abroad. One of the best consultants became a personnel company. In other words, the Ugandan media has been recognized as the country’s long-term president’s brother Yoweri Museveni.

There are little appeals in abusive women.

In the interviews, women, in Saudi Arabia rejected their bosses and rape them and raped them with a whitening or knife, they spoke to us.

So far, East African governments have ignored the calls from activists and human rights groups to discuss better employment contracts with Saudi Arabia. Employment contracts Enter only minimal employee guarantees.

The Saudi government protects and helps his law enforcement agencies and courts against abuse of employees. However, women said they could not enter such sources, and the police sent them to insulting employers or state-funded facilities that felt such as prisons.

Many abuses, however, despite the rules, they must pay their money for their flights. In our report, the desperate workers often return home, he found that he was disabled and suicide.

And in cases of serious injuries or deaths, families should walk on a red ribbon, indifference and impunity. Uganda, Isko Musa Waiswa informed us about learning that his wife died in Saudi Arabia.

The employer gave him a choice: his body or $ 2,800 salary.

“If you send me the money or sent me the money, I do not send me money, I do not send me money, I want my wife’s body,” Mr. Waiswa said.