0:04 [Music] foreign
1:45 has been described as modern day slavery
1:48 it ties workers to their employers they
1:50 can't change jobs or leave the country
1:52 without their boss's permission the
1:54 moment you land your passport is taken away
1:56 away
2:35 Saudi Arabia have come to light 24 Nails
2:38 hammered into our hands and forehead by
2:40 her Saudi employers the Kenyan
2:42 government has suspended export of
2:45 domestic workers with immediate effects
2:48 Philippines Nepal and Ethiopia have
2:50 banned their citizens from Lebanon
2:53 although many are so desperate they find
3:08 really [Music]
3:12 [Music] [Applause]
3:14 [Applause] [Music]
3:25 I'm recruiting housekeeper to Lebanon 12
3:27 years already
3:30 it's in my blood [Applause]
3:31 [Applause] [Music]
3:39 [Music] foreign
4:15 but they did not and they did not travel
4:18 but do you know why they were stars
4:21 because they are traveling illegally now
4:24 it's illegal illegal
4:27 2006 until now we are paying money for
4:30 the immigration under the table
4:33 by Visa by everything it's legal in
4:36 Lebanon but they're traveling from
5:13 marive she come to our house sure she's
5:16 afraid we don't know her and she don't
5:17 know us
5:20 after two three months she have the key
5:23 of the home and she can do everything in
5:25 the house but the passport is with us why
5:26 why
5:29 if you are traveling to work you are
5:31 traveling to earn money you are
5:35 traveling to say yes for your employers
5:37 you treat them in a human way but there
5:40 is respect and there is red lines they
5:42 cannot pass
5:44 that's what the critics say is wrong
5:46 with the system can you follow that it's
5:49 wrong with this system that's what the
5:50 critics say
5:52 I don't think there is a human rights in
5:54 this world
5:55 no way
5:58 maybe in Europe but not in the Middle East
6:05 I will not stop this business because
6:09 I'm helping myself and I'm helping the
6:34 girls who go to the Middle East we have
6:37 girls from Tanzania Uganda Philippines
6:39 we have girls from all over the world
6:43 and they don't go there as refugees
6:46 they go there
7:00 I went to work in the UAE as a nanny
7:03 and I used to see how domestic workers
7:14 not allowed to go home
7:21 they were sexually abused some of them
7:24 were wrapped
7:27 it was inhuman
7:31 and the day I was sworn in as a senator
7:44 Sasa now Lisa is
8:23 this is my firstborn Diana
8:25 my second bone wrote
8:28 my third born Naomi and this is my
8:34 I did not decide to go to the Middle
8:36 East I had no choice
8:39 by that time my husband had no job
8:40 I had children to feel
8:44 so that was the only option
8:46 if you get a good family you are lucky
8:50 but I cannot advise anybody
8:52 to work in the Middle East
8:56 that is the last place Kenyan women
9:03 a family here in Nairobi is mourning
9:06 their kin who died in Jordan the body of
9:08 another Kenyan was flown into the
9:10 country from Saudi Arabia beaten
9:14 tortured others sexually assaulted a
9:16 plea for Help by a group of Kenyan women
9:28 and it's not just Saudi Arabia it's the
9:30 gulf in most of these countries if you
9:31 walk in the streets without legal
9:55 I was to come and work in a restaurant
9:57 only to my surprise that I came and got
10:00 myself in the house you told me that
10:02 you'll be working eight hours per day
10:06 five days in a week and every month they
10:09 will pay you 400 dollars if you ask me
10:12 for the passport even I never saw it at
10:14 the first time I arrived I never saw it again
10:15 again
10:18 how many hours did you work a day
10:21 almost uh 18 hours
10:24 I woke up from 6 30 in the morning
10:28 and I work until 11.
10:31 non-stop so they did not pay me the
10:34 first month the second month then in the
10:36 lunch month I asked them why you don't
10:39 try to pay me she paid the money no
10:45 nothing no money no money no wages no
10:48 I called the agent I told him about the
10:51 situation and he told me you came here
10:54 to work not to play I I tried to explain
10:56 to him I yes I came to work but the
10:58 condition there the life I'm going
11:07 there is many agency in Lebanon not
11:10 working in a legal way
11:12 you are not dealing with scars you are
11:14 not dealing with an object you are
11:20 we as agency we should be in the middle
11:23 to give advice this employer and with
11:57 how old are you
12:00 at all 22
12:01 22 um
12:03 um foreign
13:05 [Music]
13:09 this failed you cannot trust everyone
13:12 because there is no law man
13:14 no law
13:17 let's say Middle East governments they
13:19 don't respect the law and also
13:22 everything and all the world is looking
13:23 for money
13:26 the poor she need money and the agency
13:28 need money
13:30 I cannot get all the profit that I
13:31 should get
13:34 from Lebanon it's not enough for me I
13:37 should work in the other for the other countries
13:39 countries
13:41 that's why I'm trying to make my
13:44 business bigger than this
13:46 and because I have the connection with
13:48 agencies in the African countries
13:51 God gave me a good one [Music]
14:00 they are targeting the poor families
14:03 illiterate girls
14:05 when they are recruiting domestic
14:07 workers there is no requirements
14:10 what they need is just a passport
14:13 so this is the only job these girls can get
14:21 thank you
14:25 she left here when she was okay
14:28 she went to Southeast for four years
14:30 she was admitted in a hospital
14:33 she was just dumped
14:34 and when she reached here she could not
14:37 speak to that she's not speaking they
15:42 if you cannot manage to create job
15:44 opportunities let us go to Saudia and
15:49 I don't think Kenyan government done
15:56 we must stop this
16:00 as women from this country we must stop this
16:16 the governments of Kenya and Saudi
16:18 Arabia are working on a memorandum of
16:21 understanding to ensure that Kenyan
16:23 workers are well protected in Saudi Arabia
16:24 Arabia
16:26 Kenya and Saudi Arabia continue to enjoy
16:28 long-standing warm and friendly
16:30 relations the Royal Kingdom of Saudi
16:32 Arabia has given more than 15 billion
16:35 U.S dollars in the last four decades the
16:37 two countries are working on a framework
16:39 and on labor regulations that the
16:40 Ambassador said will be signing
16:42 something soon
16:44 but at least to correct the impression
16:46 I've met many Kenyan workers some from
16:48 my uncle cities we've lived there many
16:50 years and I've been working and
17:24 right now we have our Kenyan girl who
17:40 you
17:42 they're with me
17:45 you are suppose you will go through the
17:50 so we just want to see the girl only the girl
18:21 Maria h
18:34 this is when they arrived at the airport
18:36 all the way from Jordan to here Seated
18:38 on a wheelchair
18:50 no the world has come to know what is happening
18:51 happening
18:54 as a mother as a leader I will not stand
18:57 I will not sit and watch this kind of shit
18:58 shit
19:00 we are not animals
19:13 [Music] bye
19:26 [Music] upanders
19:40 Fulani
20:59 mama
21:14 foreign [Music]
21:54 I love you imagine
22:42 hard worker um
23:09 foreign [Laughter]
24:20 [Music]
24:23 and here you should know something the
24:25 way that we talk it's not that we are shouting
24:26 shouting
24:28 you should not be afraid from anything
24:32 we talk in a higher voice okay but for
24:33 me every month we'll take your salary
24:36 you like to hold you have to hold in the
24:37 bank otherwise you have to transfer it
24:39 for your family don't talk with the
24:42 employer please okay I have two babies
24:46 one by one girl I have to build some
24:49 nice house give them better education
24:52 that's the reason I'm just staying here
24:54 don't set your money complete for your
24:56 kids okay save some money for you you
24:58 can buy land and you can build the house
25:01 as you want okay so don't be worried you
25:04 are welcome here and you have a good
25:06 choice that you have Mr Youssef is one
25:13 you must call it that really thank you
25:19 I appreciate it thank you very much and
25:21 you too also so beautiful really thank you
25:36 [Music] foreign
28:04 can you explain in detail what happened
28:13 foreign [Music]
28:54 did you notify the family in Kenya of
29:28 hello
29:31 Twitter yes Peter
29:35 I'm calling some children yes thank you
29:39 and tomorrow after midnight she will be
29:41 in the airport okay I will send you the
29:43 ticket for Maria
29:45 do we need an ambulance tomorrow
29:49 do we need an ambulance emergency car
29:52 no you can take care without ambulance
29:56 don't drop them and how is she now
29:59 she's good she can talk she can move
30:07 she was hiding the truth she actually
30:09 didn't want us to know
30:10 how Maria has been banned so we thought
30:12 that it was just
30:15 some few buns we didn't know that he was
30:18 serious because she said Maria can walk
30:27 so they were trying to get rid of Mary
30:30 and the only thing to do it was to tell lies
30:31 lies [Music]
30:40 just leave your things here because she
30:43 will come back later and no one will
30:44 touch your things because okay
30:46 okay
30:49 yeah let's go
30:56 sometimes the girl should come over from
30:59 her country
31:03 and she's pregnant or if she's sick
31:04 this is a big problem [Music]
31:06 [Music]
31:13 we give them the medical test in a
31:16 private medical center
31:19 and after this if she's fine they send
31:27 for pregnancy pdrl and hemoglobin
31:29 and two tests for kidney and two tests
31:30 for liver functions [Music]
31:38 by the grace of God I have been around
31:39 very safely
31:43 I don't know much about him but this is
31:45 my first time
31:48 when you come don't seize the phone
31:50 so there is no needable for us to bring
31:51 the food but how are you going to keep
31:54 in contact with your family that is the
31:56 main big problem that I have right now
31:59 because I don't know because
32:12 these are normal we have no problem with
32:15 them these are good the circles there's
32:31 yes foreign
33:17 these people they are cleaning our dirty thing
33:18 thing
33:21 they should not be ashamed
33:22 they should be happy [Music]
33:24 [Music]
33:26 whatever is the work you should be proud
33:32 but me step by step I'm bigger and bigger
33:34 bigger
33:37 and then it was five agencies in Jordan
34:00 that's our applicant
34:02 five of them they arrived yesterday in
34:04 the night and then we have our friend
34:14 what do you know about what you're going
34:18 in
34:24 you know what you will do I work here in
34:27 children what your work engineering
34:29 doctor housemates
34:33 you know your job that's the question
34:36 you what's your problem I am not
34:38 told by my employer
34:42 to make two pieces of medicine given to
34:44 her mom that's only the mistake I have
34:46 you give extra medicine for her mom yeah
34:48 we will find here another employer and
34:50 she will start a new contract
34:53 what's your name please
34:55 Diana what's your problem [Music]
34:57 [Music]
35:00 she have attacked from genie that's what
35:02 she said
35:04 and she started to dance she can't
35:10 I don't believe ghost but in the end the
35:22 you just can't remember what happened
35:24 in this case in Jordan we sent her back home
35:36 this our boarding house is temporary
35:38 stationed for one night and then they
35:39 will go to the Empire
35:41 this orbit room they take the mattress
35:43 in the night and they put it back this
35:45 is our kitchen set off [Music]
35:46 [Music]
35:49 and this little stop this news to be outside
35:51 outside
35:52 why do you have the camera
35:55 we have the camera because we Face a few
35:57 problems before some applicants they
35:58 fight to each other
36:00 in the home they don't know how to use
36:02 the gas
36:05 we must record for them safety
36:07 and outside
36:10 my friends come here please
36:13 no wire inside just in Florida you got
36:17 it this costs three dollars each one
36:20 thank you
36:31 I couldn't remember what Mary told me
36:34 when I visited her to the hospital
36:36 she cried
36:39 and Mary told me that I don't think if I
36:41 will make it [Music]
37:02 to me it was
37:04 so sad
37:30 but
38:10 [Music] foreign
39:15 I think they need to be pushed
39:17 when you follow something you have to
39:19 push them every day every day every day
39:37 [Music] what
39:43 [Music]
39:46 in Kenya Mary
40:47 what have you done to compensate her family
40:49 family
41:08 [Music]
41:11 isn't it your responsibility to get the
42:24 now I'm looking for an apartment because
42:27 I'm 31 years old already and I should
42:29 have my home
42:33 but also I'm looking for a wife that she
42:35 can be like how my mother should treat me
42:37 me
42:40 she should be pretty girl
42:44 not more ugly than me
42:46 I don't want Hollywood smile but I want
43:43 Laila she arrived Saturday
43:45 she's waiting until her employer will
43:48 come back from Dubai
43:49 the employer is rich [Laughter]
44:03 was 2010.
44:06 I stayed for five years in one employer
44:09 the first three months keep on crying
44:12 but this time just because I really need
44:15 to do this for my future so I need to be
44:17 brief enough
44:19 and if she have any problems you will go
44:24 do you have children
44:28 I have one son how old is he seven years
44:30 old sir
44:33 he don't he doesn't know that I'm going
44:35 back Lebanon but for me it's better not
44:38 to tell him because I know what he feels
44:40 because he preferred me to stay in Philippines
44:42 Philippines
44:44 they will travel they don't have any problem
44:45 problem
44:47 this is what they do
44:52 right yes as long as you will have money
45:06 thank you
45:09 I was in a situation that I don't know
45:11 even what to explain
45:14 I was left in the house with a mister
45:16 and he came where I was sleeping and he
45:19 told me I want you and I told him no I
45:21 can't I'm married
45:22 and he told me you're in my house you
45:25 have to obey my my my roles in this
45:29 house I was in the my bathroom then he
45:30 came and
45:33 opened the door because the doors didn't
45:36 have the key to lock he saw and he still
45:38 insisted to came inside when he came
45:40 inside and I shout
45:44 he got out I was shaking and he was just
45:47 laughing that time I I didn't take
45:51 anything I just walked out and ran away
45:53 I was I was feeling so down and that I
45:57 was fed up I can't take it anymore then
45:59 I took my bed sheets I had three bed
46:01 sheets I tied them
46:04 and I used I used them to get them to go
46:07 down what floor washes on how how high
46:11 that floor third floor yes wait weren't
46:14 you scared it I was scared but because
46:17 of what I'm going through I just it was
46:20 I decided even if I die it's better than two
46:21 two
46:24 quadrill what I was going through
46:27 I was feeling confused even I was
46:29 wishing I would die
46:32 because it was a hard experience never
47:11 [Applause] [Music]
47:13 [Music]
47:15 thank you [Music]
48:00 space attempts in which migrant women
48:02 choose to jump of buildings razor then
48:05 continue working in abuse
48:09 they make us non-davids in this report really
48:10 really
48:13 but every one week too
48:16 jump why there is a swimming pool down
48:25 in our office okay from 20 years until
48:31 we never had it
48:36 we never had it we have runaways yes but
48:38 we never have any problem like this if
48:40 you are bad they will not come over
48:57 I don't know if I feel excited because
49:00 it's my first time to see my employer
49:02 I know I'm strong woman
49:48 is good man she will be good in her work
49:51 everything will be good with her
49:55 does it affect you to hear her story
49:59 I'm a human in the end and I have heart
50:01 but me I'm helping her that she was earning
50:04 earning
50:06 me I'm doing something to help her and
50:08 also I'm earning
50:16 this is the politics of the world man I
50:18 am stronger than you I will destroy you
50:21 there is people they are high they have
50:23 people that they are working under them
50:25 and these people that they are poor they
50:27 have also work people that they are
50:30 working for them nothing will change I think
50:50 of Jordan is in Nairobi to meet
50:53 president Uhuru Kenyatta as the two
50:54 countries look to improve trade
50:56 relations that have remained strained
50:58 following a ban on the exploitation of
51:02 domestic workers Saudi Arabia has also
51:04 retaliated its commitment to fund
51:06 development projects in Kenya to
51:18 that the agreement of recruitment of
51:20 domestic workers
51:23 was successfully signed Saudi Arabia is
51:26 committed to supporting development in
52:00 I don't understand how we are going to
52:02 tackle this issue whether someone is
52:04 going to die whether it's going to be
52:06 killed whether it's going to be maim
52:08 this none of their business
52:09 it's a cartel
52:11 Kenyan government
52:16 Saudi Arabia knows Jordan knows so it is known
52:18 known
52:21 and it will not stop
52:25 this is a business it's just like drugs
52:27 it cannot stop [Music]
52:46 what about Mary the girl who was banned
52:48 and died at Kenyatta Hospital whoever
52:55 you know that thing that case was
52:58 contentious Senator ah so however do you
53:00 believe that [Laughter]
53:04 [Laughter]
53:06 you know the problem with you you did
53:09 not even go and interrogate that girl
53:11 so that is a one Side Story did you hear
53:13 from Mary herself
53:16 and I got a report from my mission yeah
53:18 that is a report but did you listen to Mary
53:20 Mary
53:22 you did not then how do you believe
53:23 those people
53:25 those are people from Jordan did you
53:28 listen to your own daughter Mary is our
53:49 and you see the guy is laughing as if
53:55 and they're making so much money out of it
54:01 I feel that I have failed and I feel
54:03 that the government have failed and
54:04 that's the truth
54:06 I'm a leader people are complaining to
54:09 you you cannot help them you you feel useless
54:11 useless
54:13 you feel like you cannot perform your
55:36 [Music] [Applause]
56:25 [Applause] [Music]
56:27 [Music] analism
56:28 analism [Applause]
56:45 [Music] [Applause]
56:47 [Applause] [Music]
57:32 [Music] foreign
58:41 foreign [Music]
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