Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Organization of Human Rights in Jordan
It deals with the rights of people as humans and delivers their rights and protect them from being abused

Organization of women's rights in Jordan
It focuses on women and fights for their rights even if they are maids

Related Articles

http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/new-straits-times/mi_8016/is_20100104/maids-abuse-baby-caught-cctv/ai_n45737419/

    Although we all think that we are the guilty ones ,and we are responsible for all of the problem . The main problem is all about our behaviour we should know how to deal with others as human beings  not animals .  This article shows a further complication of the  maid abuse problem is that when maids are abused some of them seek for revenge and so they may cause harm to one of the family membars -as the baby in the article- all of this is to revenge back from being abused. So as a conclusion by treating maids the way they should be treated you will not only gain their respect as well as loyality to you , you will also protect your family from any unexpected incidence .


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7096733.stm

    This article points out another important issue that most people are not aware of most of people abuse maids coz they didn't their mission the way they are expected to and so on.... But if we tried to figure out why they would do that it's coz a large no of maids are obliged to come here and word and it's not their desire as the article said they pay for their famileys so they could give up on them & let them come here . To raise awarness about the issue we should focus on communication it's all about communication we haveto ask our maids just before they get stsrted if they are really interested in working or it's only coz their families forced them to do so .

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Maid Abuse


The issue of torture or in other words, the use of the means of violence against domestic workers, is increasing in Jordan some of these abnormal behaviors may come in response to errors by the servants themselves and others may be due to misbehaviour on the part of some employers.


Some of these behaviors carry a lot of cruelty and ugliness to the degree that it may lead to a crime others may end by mutual consent between the Employer and the server without being up to the police, and the strange thing is the involvement of wives in the commission of such behaviors.


A case indicates that a woman was accused of abusing a young maid . The woman and her daughter informed the police that they had found the maid in a case of severe fatigue in the bathroom and they found out that she was dead. With the medical examination on the body revealed forensic evidence of torture , including the effects of a hot iron from 6 months ago . The report also referred to the removal of some locks of hair from the victim's head and also one of her nails .


Inquiries by the police reached at the involvement of reporting in causing the death of the victim and it was due to apermanent torture .The woman was arrested on charges of murder with premeditation and her husband was arrested as well, he was covering up the torture over long period. Then theywere referred to the Attorney General submitted to the Criminal Court and the case is still pending.


Another incident, the heroine is also a woman .The police were informed by the arrival of a maid Asian to emergency Hamad General Hospital infected severely wounded, and found that the victim is in intensive care and was suffering from a brain hemorrhage and the sponsor of the victim, denied he or his wife, causing injuries to the servant and said that injuries are due to the fact that the maid beats her head into the wall and as the sponsor the wife denied it in the same way . At the same day in which the victim arrived to the hospital it was revealed that she was dead.


We all should try to find solutions to raise the awareness about it . If the maid was not doing her job the way she is expected to , nobody has the right to hurt or abuse her, we can advice her and warn her not to repeat the same behaviour or we can just get a new one , but not hit her.


we could raise the awareness by lettinhg people know more about the problem and that it does exist !! and there must be a continual contact between the maid and the company which employed her so she will have the right to leave the family if they are hurting her . And the guardian should agree to the terms in the contract that he will not hurt her by any means and if so he will recieve punishment.
Related topics :
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/everywoman/2008/02/200852518505224820.html