After managing and supervising househelps for over 16 years, Kate Karuri started a training program that coaches both domestic workers and their employers on workplace dignity in the home Nairobi, Kenya | BIRD AGENCY | Kate Karuri worked with and managed domestic workers in Kenya for over 16 years before …
Read More »MPs ask gov’t to protect domestic workers abroad
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Gender, Labour and Social Development, has urged government to expeditiously put systems in place to monitor Ugandans who labour in foreign countries as domestic workers. This follows rampant cases of torture and death of Ugandan domestic workers abroad. MPs said government needed to …
Read More »POLICE: Ugandan domestic worker was murdered
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The examination of body samples removed from the corpse of Milly Namazzi has revealed that all the internal organs were intact. Namazzi left Uganda for a domestic job in Saudi Arabia in 2019. She was expected to return home after the expiry of her …
Read More »Deported domestic workers talk of mistreatment in Middle East
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some of the Ugandan migrant workers deported from Saudi Arabia blame their woes on mistreatment, long working hours, and non-payment. On October 3, 2021, over 43 migrant workers were deported from Saudi Arabia via Entebbe International Airport. Mark Ssengondo and another domestic worker who spoke on condition of …
Read More »Ugandans face arrest for hiring trafficked persons as domestic workers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate has raised concern over the increasing cases of Ugandans hiring victims of transnational trafficking as domestic workers. Charles Twine, the spokesperson of the directorate says that security forces are launching operations against traffickers, and that any person who has hired victims …
Read More »Domestic workers petition Kadaga over minimum wage, sexual harassment
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Domestic Workers Association has petitioned the Speaker of Parliament seeking for a minimum wage saying they are highly exploited at their workplaces. The Association comprised of over 1,000 local house helps organized under the Platform for Labour Action have also called for the expedition …
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