Migrant boat capsizes off Libya, 400 feared dead

AP ROME – Survivors of a capsized migrant boat off Libya have told the aid group Save the Children that an estimated 400 people are believed to have drowned. Even before the survivors were interviewed, Italy’s Coast Guard said it assumed that there were many dead given the size of the ship and that nine

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Top WHO official in Thailand denies beating maid, treating her like slave

A 25-year-old Ethiopian maid has accused Dr Yonas Tegegn, the World Health Organisation’s representative in Thailand, and his wife, of abusing her and forcing her to work without pay for nearly two years. — PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER BANGKOK (AFP) – The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) top official in Thailand on Saturday denied beating his

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Ethiopian maid ‘accuses WHO official in Thailand of slavery’

AFP -Thai police said Wednesday they are investigating a senior Bangkok-based World Health Organization official and his wife after their Ethiopian maid accused them of modern-day slavery and physical abuse. The 25-year-old maid filed a complaint last month accusing her employers of beating her and forcing her to work without pay for nearly two years

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Ethiopian Leading Gang Of Maid Traffickers Arrested

The Gang Involved In Trafficking Of Housemaids In Police Custody. An Ethiopian Woman Was Leading The Group And Supplying Maids To Citizens And Expatriates KUWAIT CITY: Officers from the General Department for Residency Affairs Investigations arrested a gang led by an Ethiopian woman for housemaid trafficking in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh area. According to a press statement

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Ethiopian Leading Gang Of Maid Traffickers Arrested

The Gang Involved In Trafficking Of Housemaids In Police Custody. An Ethiopian Woman Was Leading The Group And Supplying Maids To Citizens And Expatriates KUWAIT CITY: Officers from the General Department for Residency Affairs Investigations arrested a gang led by an Ethiopian woman for housemaid trafficking in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh area. According to a press statement

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Ethiopian maid takes her own life in Saudi Arabia

An Ethiopian maid committed suicide here Sunday, said Al-Jouf Police spokesman Col. Turki Al-Muwaishir. She used a piece of cloth to hang herself from window. The maid’s sponsor reported her death to the police after he saw her body hanging from the window. Paramedics transported her body to hospital where a postmortem examination will be

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Ethiopian maid takes her own life in Saudi Arabia

An Ethiopian maid committed suicide here Sunday, said Al-Jouf Police spokesman Col. Turki Al-Muwaishir. She used a piece of cloth to hang herself from window. The maid’s sponsor reported her death to the police after he saw her body hanging from the window. Paramedics transported her body to hospital where a postmortem examination will be

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Ethiopia strives to control its population growth

Ethiopia will seek to rein in its population growth by bringing its people’s fertility rate down to 2.6 percent in 2020 from 4.1 percent at present, a government official has said. “With 90 million people, Ethiopia is the most populous state in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Berhane Assefa, a family planning service coordinator at the Ministry of

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Ethiopians reentry to the Saudi labor market is subject to finalize new regulations, MOL

Saudi’s Ministry of Labor said today that it has not yet finished a review of regulations streamlining the resumption of Ethiopian workers to enter the Saudi labor market. Undersecretary of the Ministry for International Labor Affairs Dr. Ahmed Al-Fihaid said following a meeting between the Minister of Labor Adel Faqih and visiting Speaker of Ethiopia’s

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Ethiopia is home to the largest Child Sex Trafficking in Africa – U.S.

OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Ethiopia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Girls from Ethiopia’s rural areas are exploited in domestic servitude and, less frequently, prostitution within

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