Islamism - 7

[Husky]

Related to posts 541, 540, and 615 above. (Those who haven't come across the news pasted in them, won't understand the reasoning in the following.)





1. Good move.



thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Nepal+bars+young+women+from+working+in+Gulf%3A+report&NewsID=342877

Nepal bars young women from working in Gulf: report





Added At: 2012-08-09 8:19 PM

Last Updated At: 2012-08-09 8:26 PM



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[image caption:] Nepalese women mark International Women's Day in Kathmandu in March 2012.

[color="#800080"](Some *purdy* Nepalese Hindu women in pic. Cute's an understatement.

But don't know why these pretty Nepalese are wasting their time in some "international women's day" march. Clearly, the concept is too profound for my poor brain.)[/color]





[image caption:]Nepal has banned women under 30 from travelling to Gulf countries to work following reports of widespread sexual abuse and exploitation, local media said on Thursday.



KATHMANDU: Nepal has banned women under 30 from travelling to Gulf countries to work following reports of widespread sexual abuse and exploitation, local media said on Thursday.



Thousands of women -- mostly aged under 25 -- leave the impoverished Himalayan nation every year to take up menial jobs in cleaning or construction, with many heading to Gulf Arab states.



"Young female workers are reported to have been sexually and psychologically exploited in Gulf countries," Information Minister Raj Kishor Yadav was quoted as saying in the Himalayan Times English-language daily newspaper.



"So the cabinet decided to set the age bar for women migrant workers in the Gulf. Women above 30 years of age are at low risk of such exploitation."

(Nonsense. Islamaniacs famously practise even necrophilia. So let's not pretend poor 30+ year olds are safe either, when they won't be safe even when they're corpses.)



Nepalese women have been allowed to go to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar since 2010, when authorities lifted a 12-year ban imposed after the suicide of a Nepalese domestic worker who had been abused in Kuwait.



Most Nepalese migrant workers are in India but the government and local charities estimate that between 20,000 and 70,000 are in wealthy Gulf countries, lured by the promise of better wages to help support their families back home.



Maiti Nepal, which works to prevent the trafficking of Nepalese women abroad, welcomed the announcement, saying many underage girls travelled to the Gulf for work and abuse was common.



"We have met several housemaids who were not only raped by their masters but also forced to have sex with the masters' relatives. They are confined to the house and live in a situation akin to slavery," director Bishwa Khadka said.



There was an outcry in Sri Lanka in September 2010 when a maid returned from Saudi Arabia alleging that her employers had forced 24 nails and needles into her body.

(See earlier news posted at IF in #541.)



Fifteen Nepalese women committed suicide in Lebanon in 2010 while two to three domestic helpers a week seek refuge in Nepalese embassies in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait following abuse from their employers, according to the Times.



The labour ministry was not immediately available for comment.

And predictably the irrational - or is it insidious, i.e. deliberate? - whining has started. With elements in "UN Women" saying the ban goes against "women's rights" - or something - to "work". Except that the great likelihood of being sexually attacked isn't "work". <- A little observation that seems to go beyond UN Women's brains - so blindly pre-occupied with the semantics of "women's rights" as they are.

Actually, seen from a relevant perspective, the ban is *pro* women's rights: the heathen Nepalese women's rights to be kept safe by their own heathen government from islamaniac torture. Even if a ban is what it will take. Though I favour a grand, unmistakable, awareness campaign to irrevocably immunise the heathens from the foolish idea of going into islamaniac lands, but such things take time. (I always favour people consciously making the only sensible decision, rather than them being offered only the sensible option.)





2. thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Age+bar+on+migrant+maids+draws+rights+flak&NewsID=342941

Age bar on migrant maids draws rights flak





Added At: 2012-08-09 11:02 PM

Last Updated At: 2012-08-09 11:02 PM





HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE





KATHMANDU: Increased incidents of sexual, physical and mental exploitation of Nepali housemaids in gulf countries and reports of underage girls being sent on forged passports prompted the government to restrict women bellow 30 years of age from working as housemaids in those countries, but rights activists say it violates women’s right to equality.



Government sources said the new age bar will apply only to those women who want to work in informal sectors that are not covered by the host countries’ labour laws. The job of housemaid falls under Kafala system prevalent in gulf countries which allows the employers to hold their employees’ travel documents, restrict them from changing jobs and returning to their home countries at their will. Most of the Gulf countries have not signed ILO conventions.



“We decided to put age bar because mature women can better protect themselves. Other South Asian countries also have similar provision. The Gulf countries themselves suggested to have such provision,” said Kumar Belbase, Minister of Labour and Employment. Bal Bahadur Tamang, President, Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies shares government’s views.



Saru Joshi, Programme Specialist, UN Women, Nepal, however, said they were against any kind of restriction on women. “The more prudent step will be to strengthen security network, to offer choices, make the workers aware of the risks, strengthen NRN associations and adopt integrated approach,” she added.

(Am I the only one? The only one who, when Saru Joshi of "UN Women" started talking, only heard "Bla Bla Bla"?

Oh, that must be what the Greeks called "barbarian": one who makes no sense, is unintelligible/unintelligent etc.)



Minister Belbase said the government was trying to create enough jobs within the country because banking on remittance was not good for the country.



Advocate Pushpa Bhushal said the new age bar was against women’s right to work and right to equality. “Government should focus on protective measures rather than restricting them from seeking foreign employment,” she added. Joshi said if the government implemented the new age bar policy without bringing employment schemes for women on 18-29-year age group, women workers could fall prey to unscrupulous elements and could be trafficked to Gulf countries via foreign countries. “In most of the Gulf countries, families have overriding authorities over the court on some matters. Many Nepali workers do not know this,” Joshi added.



UN Women conducted an interview recently with 608 women who returned from Gulf countries where 94 per cent women said they would not leave the country if they had an opportunity to earn at least NRs 10,000 a month.



Economist Chiranjivi Nepal, however, said sending women to Gulf countries was almost like rendering them slaves. “These countries have not even granted voting rights to women. Work is dignified only when people are treated equally,” he added. According to government estimate [color="#FF0000"]last year 23,000 women had gone to work in Gulf countries[/color], half of whom were for informal sector jobs.

(Yikes. 23000 Hindu females to be cannibalised by islam? Are people mad???? Are they not following the news on what happens to even islamaniac females from Indonesia etc who end up in islamaniac ME as housemaids, not to mention the kafirs who end up in the ME?)



The share of women workers’ contribution to remittance is expected to be around 11 per cent.

I'm still not happy with the ban. Because it's not enough:



1. The ban should be against heathen women and men - and of all ages - from going to islamaniac countries.

Example: as seen in the case of the poor male Sri Lankan lay Buddhist 3 posts above (post 615) - who was terrorised by islamania for daring to worship a Buddha statue - it's not just women who have it bad in islamic pardees-es.

And as the case of unfortunate Ariyawathie (see post 541) showed, it's not just the under-30s that are attacked.



2. After issuing the ban, create a large-scale nation-wide campaign in each heathen nation to raise awareness about the real ground situation in the islamic ME: have heathen survivors speak at awareness events and narrate their harrowing tales of being harrowed by islamania/cs. Or recount the tales of heathens who didn't survive/haven't escaped.



Once the reality settles into heathens' heads, so that even desperate people would rather die first than go there (the heathens hired by ME's islamania specifically don't get paid - despite the adverts promising wages - plus they get terrorised), *then* the govt can drop the ban: people will regulate themselves from going there.



3. Need to <somehow> create more local jobs or, worst case, people looking for work should try other heathen nations instead. (Nepalese Hindus are of course most welcome to come to India. Christist nepalese not welcome: can go to ME, which worships the invisible monogawd like them.)



People can be "free" to make the choice *only* after all the aspects of their choices are revealed to them.

Because it's one thing to end up dead. It's another to die by excruciating torture such as only christoislamania will inflict. I doubt anyone would knowingly voluntarily sign up for that.