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Saudi Arabia makes Covid vaccination mandatory for domestic workers

Saudi Arabia has made COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for domestic workers including housemaids, drivers and others who are affiliated with recruitment firms.

Uzma Bibi’s murder highlights dangers child maids face in Pakistan

Police said Uzma died after blows to the head with a kitchen utensil. She had been working for the family in Lahore for eight months when she was killed in January this year.

Ex-minister’s son arrested for ‘torturing domestic workers

LAHORE: Former federal minister Siddiq Kanjo’s son Ameen Kanjo was taken into custody from the premises of the Supreme Court’s Lahore registry on Tuesday...

Kuwait reaches deal with Philippines on domestic workers: KUNA

DUBAI: Kuwait and the Philippines have signed an agreement regulating some working conditions for domestic workers in the Gulf State, Kuwait’s state news agency...

Four of a family burnt alive in Lahore house fire

LAHORE: At least four people, two children among them, were burnt to death after a fire broke out in a house in a neighborhood...

Teenage girl recovered from ‘illegal confinement’ of anchorperson

LAHORE: Police have recovered a teenage domestic worker from the residence of anchorperson Gharidah Farooqui, who, the child’s parent alleged, kept his daughter in illegal...

Indonesia to stop sending domestic workers to Mideast: reports

JAKARTA: Indonesia will stop sending new domestic workers to 21 Middle Eastern countries, reports said Tuesday, after the recent execution of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia angered Jakarta.

Gulf agrees new contract for domestic workers ahead of Asia meet

ABU DHABI: Gulf labour ministers Tuesday agreed on minimum terms in the contracts of domestic staff to improve the widely criticised working conditions of over 2.4 million foreign maids, an official said.

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