KUWAIT SCAPEGOATS, CRIMINALIZES ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS

MIGRANT RIGHTS Kuwait’s low-income migrants endure daily discrimination but local media and authorities tend to particularly criminalize Ethiopian domestic workers. The March 2014 murder of a Kuwaiti woman by an Ethiopian domestic worker most recently inflamed rhetoric against Ethiopian migrants and incited national panic against domestic workers; state officials and local media fueled racist hysteria in

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Kuwait: Raped Ethiopian maid hospitalized with severe bleeding

Kuwait Times KUWAIT: A domestic worker was hospitalized with severe bleeding resulting from being raped, according to the medical diagnosis. The Ethiopian woman reportedly fell sick in a house in Jahra governorate, and was rushed to Jahra Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. Medical tests revealed that the maid was subjected to sexual assault which

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15-year-old Kuwaiti boy arrested for torturing and killing Ethiopian maid

Emirates 247 A 15-year-old Kuwaiti boy used a large stick to torture his Ethiopian housemaid to death before he was arrested by the police, a newspaper reported on Monday. The boy’s mother had told police the maid had been beaten up by unknown assailants during her weekend but her claims were not convincing, Al Watan

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