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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTwFV2DRKH3a3ewZk37E4INxUhIpF-rhaSgQbEtm5mDjDY3TRFPvqunV1l5koakZhntkv094NIf23vlpCnJhCUhcIVZ464F6aPnI-xQVyJm2PKDcTajRaIg9gEavZMxV7yW7CQVNwz8w/s1600/Maids+Saudi+Arabia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTwFV2DRKH3a3ewZk37E4INxUhIpF-rhaSgQbEtm5mDjDY3TRFPvqunV1l5koakZhntkv094NIf23vlpCnJhCUhcIVZ464F6aPnI-xQVyJm2PKDcTajRaIg9gEavZMxV7yW7CQVNwz8w/s320/Maids+Saudi+Arabia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Colombo says decision mainly due to rights abuses.</i><br /><br />Sri Lanka’s expatriate workers, mainly housemaids and unskilled labourers, send back remittances - the island nation’s main foreign exchange earner - that help earn around $7 billion (Dh25.71 billion) a year for the $82.2 billion economy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senaratne said President Maithripala Sirisena had appointed a committee to study strategies to reduce the numbers gradually and finally stop sending maids abroad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We want to discourage the housemaids category in foreign employment because the social cost is very high,” he told Reuters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Human rights abuses and social costs due to rapes, drug addiction and child abuse in many families of housemaids, and labour shortage locally, have prompted the government to take such a decision, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The total number of departures for foreign employment declined by 12.4 per cent last year to 263,307, partly due to the slowdown of economic activities in the Middle East.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sri Lanka is already encouraging sending skilled male workers abroad instead of low-skilled women and housemaids.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2013, around 1,650 Sri Lankan housemaids complained of being physically and sexually abused by their employers, mainly in the Middle East, the latest data from the Foreign Employment Bureau showed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2013, the Saudis executed a young Sri Lankan housemaid for killing an infant left in her care, rejecting repeated appeals by the Indian Ocean island against her death sentence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Colombo recalled its ambassador from Riyadh in protest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After their Sri Lankan maid complained of too much work in 2010, a Saudi couple tortured her by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead. The maid returned home.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last year, however, Saudi authorities reduced a Sri Lankan maid’s sentence for adultery from death by stoning to a three-year jail term after an appeal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: Gulfnews, June 2, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Death-Penalty-News-206848499362906/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

Sri Lanka to stop sending maids to Middle East

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