Around 80 per cent of young Ethiopian women who are working in various emirates in the UAE were brought by illegal maid supply agencies. These agencies have told them that they would work as ...

A despondent maid in Dubai who was fired from her job after complaining about the lack of pay tried to commit suicide — only to be arrested and fined by police, according to reports. The desperate act ...

Two maids have spoken of the appalling abuse they claim was dished out by their employers, as a top diplomat called for an end to household “slavery”. Hedja Ousman, 22, and Wube Tamene, 18, worked for ...

A Filipina housemaid in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) survived torture and starvation at the hands of her employers but her Ethiopian colleague did not. The couple faced the Court of First Instance ...

Dubai: An Ethiopian maid, who allegedly brutally attacked her Emirati sponsor’s three children with a cleaver while they were asleep after pouring boiling water on them, was sentenced to life in ...

A Dubai-based maid is dead and another seriously injured after a bloody fight between the pair involving knives and skewers, UAE daily The National reported on Tuesday. Cops found the two Ethiopian ...

DUBAI (AFP) - A Dubai court has upheld a 15-year jail term for an Emirati woman who tortured her Ethiopian maid to death by forcing her to drink pesticide, media reported Monday. The 46-year-old ...

A United Arab Emirates court on Monday sentenced an Emirati housewife to 15 years in jail for torturing her Ethiopian and Filipina maids. The Ethiopian maid died after she was forced to drink ...

As an Ethiopian working as a maid in Dubai, life was far from easy for Yemisrach. But when the coronavirus pandemic struck, forcing her to return home and take up sex work, things got a whole lot ...

28 July 2012 Muscat: Ethiopian government has clamped a ban on its citizens to work as maids in the Sultanate as the two countries do not have any formal treaty on recruiting manpower. As the number ...