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A semi-slavery, in a smaller isolated situation, still exists these days in some of the Arab countries and Malaysia where households will recruit servants (maid
by edwinnathaniel 15y ago
A semi-slavery, in a smaller isolated situation, still exists these days in some of the Arab countries and Malaysia where households will recruit servants (maid of the house) from a country such as Indonesia and pretty much did the usual drill:
- Ask the maid to work inhumanly
- Giving no vacation or "day out with friends"
- Held hostage the passport
- Occasionally raped or violent beating (sometime by using a very hot iron...)
Given the situation that the maids are just imported "resources", the law/judge didn't seem to give much thought or care until recently where there were several of the cases became high-profiled due to international news covering them.
These maids are typically treated like a slave.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11795356 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11795356
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13860097 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13860097
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13601362 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13601362
- pbiggar 15y agoPlease don't refer to this practice as 'semi-slavery'. It is slavery. If you are held against your will and made work, it is slavery (and is in fact defined by the UN as such, as I recall).
- edwinnathaniel 15y agoThe reason why I chose the word "semi" was because of a few things: 1) It's not an official form of slavery on paper as in they got bought in exchange of money, but more as a "helper of the house" originally. 2) The said maid does have option: cut ties or report to the police, but they were normally under pressure not to do so (psychologically) But I won't argue/debate that it is definitely slavery.