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Ethiopia starts sending more than 500,000 housemaids to Riyadh

Ethiopia starts sending more than 500,000 housemaids to Riyadh

Addis Ababa, April 19/2023, Ethio Negari:- Ethiopia is recruiting more than half a million of its citizens to send to Saudi Arabia. Human rights experts said they are concerned about Ethiopia's mass recruitment of women. Human rights experts have stated that Saudi Arabia's human rights record is weak. As a result, the mass recruitment of female workers by Ethiopia is a major concern to humanitarian violations. Human rights researcher Nadia Hardman said that many Ethiopian workers are still excluded from labor laws in Saudi Arabia and are vulnerable to modern slavery. According to the system called “Kafala”, if a worker…
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