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Report: Kenyan domestic workers go though hell in Saudi Arabia

The report highlights how employers subjected the women to extreme exploitation in private homes, often fuelled by racism.

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by GORDON OSEN

News14 May 2025 - 04:58
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Amnesty International Kenya executive director Irungu Houghton (centre) presents the report on Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia to Mombasa Tourism CEC Mohamed Osman (second R) at Kenya Coast National Polytechnic, Mombasa /KNA

When agents scouting for domestic workers to export abroad approach women already weathering hard life, they package the offer as life-changing and a death blow to poverty, but that's not all there is.

They don’t tell you about the racial abuse, being raped by employers, being denied food, among other hellish conditions.

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