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Pain of Slavery

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They are not mere victims or poor labourers but they are someone’s sisters, wives, daughter,
mothers.
Most importantly they are human beings
who are entitled to their rights and deserve respect.
These victims have no religions, no countries, everywhere they are same.
They have same tears left after they have been tortured but the taste of the tears of every woman is salty irrespective of their country, language and religion.
They need their rights and deserve respect.
It is their hard work abroad, that annually brings in around 15 billion dollars every year to Bangladesh economy but sadly at the high cost of ‘The pain of slavery’

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  • “We want our daughter back “<br />
Kulsum ‘s father Shahidul Islam said.<br />
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Kulsum went to Saudi Arabia as a home maid in April 2019. She had been sexsually assulted several times by his employer and his son. But when she protested against them, she was tortured brutally and got severely injured. Later, she died in a hospital during treatment. Kulsum’s body arrived in Bangladesh in September 2020.
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  • Shefali walked slowly<br />
in the heavy downpour,<br />
suffering terrible pain in her legs. She had to make it to her new job closer to home<br />
in Bangladesh after fleeing a nearly lethal job setting in<br />
Saudi Arabia
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  • “WE DON’T HAVE ANY COUNTRY”<br />
Shefali said.<br />
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She had been hospitalized for nearly two months after being beaten with an electric cable by her Saudi employer. Fortunately, she survived the beatings, and returned to<br />
Bangladesh, with injuries.<br />
Shefali went to Saudi Arabia in April 2018. She has been beaten with a<br />
electric cable often. The Saudi employer gave her food once per<br />
day. After severe physical and mental torture she managed to return home with serious<br />
injury and was hospitalized for 2 months. She has got a job as a nurse in Bangladesh even without being properly cured from her<br />
illness. Her husband is unemployed and<br />
criticized her as “ Bad<br />
Woman” even though she runs the family.
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  • " I DID NOTHING WRONG TO ANYONE,WHY IT'S HAPPENED TO ME" <br />
Beauty always murmurs.<br />
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Beauty used to be a good student but her parents arranged her early<br />
marriage. After her marriage she came to know that her husband has<br />
another wife. She became very shocked and felt betrayed. With the<br />
with the help of a local travel agent, she went to Lebanon in 2009. The son of her<br />
employer sexually assaulted her. She returned Bangladesh and<br />
again went to Qatar for work. But again she was physically tortured,<br />
and became mentally sick. With the help of Bangladeshi authority she<br />
returned home with a severe mental disorder. She spent her time at her<br />
the village home chained up most of the time. Manikganj, Bangladesh 2019

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  • “I DON’T KNOW HOW I WILL BRING UP MY CHILD”<br />
Jaismin sobbed.<br />
Jaismin went to Jordan to work as a<br />
maidservant with a house visa.<br />
She started to work in an employer’s house but suddenly she got trapped<br />
by a woman who runs a brothel. She started to mix up with the clients and<br />
became pregnant. In the meantime her<br />
employer filed a general diary as she fled away without informing them.<br />
Police arrested and sent her into lock up.<br />
After two months in the lock up, she<br />
returned to Bangladesh and gave<br />
birth to a girl in Bangladesh. Relatives and neighbors has outcast her from the<br />
community. She doesn’t know how to survive with her daughter. Singair, Bangladesh 2019
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  • Every year hundreds of female migrant<br />
workers return to Bangladesh after such abuse and in some cases after death. Their migration abroad, undertaken at the cost of mortgaged land and belongings, was to support their families back home, in exchange for the life of a servant in a foreign. Their suffering often knew no limits – starting from<br />
underpayment, denial of food and sexual<br />
exploitation, some resulting in unwanted pregnancies<br />
Society and family members have outcast them as the workers have no idea how to<br />
explain to their children their father’s identity.<br />
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  • “MY SON DOESN’T CALL ME MOTHER”this is her only pain; Monowara said.<br />
Monowara has to take lots of medicines for his mental treatment.Monowara got married when she was only 11 years old. She lived with<br />
her husband for 10 years. Her husband sent her Lebanon to work as a maidservant as their<br />
economic condition was not good.<br />
After working there one and half year the wife of the employer gave her an injection to be<br />
physically fit. But after the injection she has<br />
developed mental disorder<br />
and felt sick. After that the employer sent her back to Bangladesh.<br />
Staying nine months with her family in Bangladesh she went to Dubai to work again. But she couldn’t continue there, as she got mentally sick again. She returned home and stayed another year with her family. Finally she went to Saudi Arabia, with the help of a local<br />
agent. After working there five months, she didn’t get any salary,<br />
moreover she has been locked into the room.<br />
She is back home now and getting better after the treatment but her biggest disappointment is<br />
that “ My son doesn’t call me mother, because his school friends told<br />
him that your mother is mad, she is not normal.” Singair Bangladesh, 2019.
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  • Rajib shows the torture face of his mother Najma Begum in his mobile. Najma<br />
to Saudi Arabia to work with a house visa. After few days she has been<br />
tortured and at one stage she became very sick and died. The family<br />
members still waiting to receive the body from Saudi Arabia. Manikganj, Bangladesh 2019.
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  • "THEY MURDERED MY SISTER" Maksuda said while describing the incident of Najma Begum's death in Saudi.<br />
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Relatives try to console Maksuda after she hears the death news of her friend Najma Begum.Najma Begum called her friend Maksuda before she died. She was very<br />
sick and saying” Please save me, I am going to die, they are killing me.” Najma went<br />
to Saudi Arabia to work with a house visa. Manikganj, Bangladesh,2019



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  • An Orthopedic surgeon examines an x-ray report of Taniya Akhter's broken ankle, one of the migrated workers. The son of the Saudi employer pushed her from the balcony when she refused to do sex with him. Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taniya went to Saudi Arabia to work as a home maid but within a month she became the target of the son of the employer and assaulted regularly.
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  • “I WANT ALL OF THEM TO BE PUNISHED”<br />
Kabirun said.<br />
Kabirun went to Saudi Arabia in March 2019. Her husband left her<br />
when her son was only 3 months old. After struggling several years<br />
finally she decided to go to Saudi Arabia to work as a maidservant with<br />
a house visa. She was promised to get<br />
$ 250 dollar per month. But after<br />
working three months when she asked for the salary the wife of the<br />
employer beat her up and at one stage held her neck and pushed her from<br />
the 2nd floor of the house.Having severe injury in the backbone and fracture in her legs she got admitted in the hospital by the Saudi police.<br />
She survived but now she is completely disabled, could not move without the<br />
wheelchair. Noe she wants to file a case but because of money and proper support she couldn’t proceed but she wants justice before she dies, she said.<br />
Islampur, Sylhet, Bangladesh 2019
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  • "I LOST MY EVERYTHING" Kabirun said.<br />
<br />
Kabirun went to Saudi Arabia in March 2019. Her husband left her<br />
when her son was only 3 months old. After struggling several years<br />
finally she decided to go to Saudi Arabia to work as a maidservant with<br />
a house visa. She was promised to get $ 250 dollar per month. But after<br />
working three months when she asked for the salary the wife of the<br />
employer beat her up and at one stage held her neck and pushed her from<br />
the 2nd floor of the house.Having severe injury in the backbone and fracture in  her legs she got admitted in the hospital by the Saudi police. She<br />
survived but now she is completely disabled, could not move without the<br />
wheelchair. ‘ I wanted to file a case but because of money and proper support I couldn’t proceed but I want justice before I die.’ She said, Islampur, Sylhet, Bangladesh 2019
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  • “I PLEA TO THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO ISSUE VISA TO ANY WOMEN MIGRANT WORKER TO GO TO MIDDLE EAST”<br />
Dalia said.<br />
Dalia with her son Abid. She left Abid with her family members when she went to Saudi Arabia with a “house visa” on 11 July 2018.<br />
From the beginning the Saudi emploer<br />
and his wife beat her up for any of her small mistakes. One day, wife of the<br />
employer cut her hands severely with<br />
blades. After the torture she sold Dalia to another family via a recruiting<br />
office. The new employer agreed to give her only food but not the<br />
treatment cost. Then one day, the brother of the employer’s wife proposed<br />
her for physical relation. She denied. After that she was sold again to<br />
another man. That man tried to rape her and while escaping she jumped from the second floor of a building. She was severely injured , Saudi Police took her to the<br />
hospital for the treatment. After getting treatedt for two and half months she<br />
returned to Bangladesh. Jurain, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2019
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  • "AFTER RETURNING TO BANGLADESH WE DON'T GET ANY JOB AS PEOPLE THINK WE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ILLEGAL WORK."<br />
<br />
Asma said.<br />
Asma went to Saudi Arabia with a house visa in 2018. After two months of working<br />
she has been raped repeatedly by the employer and became pregnant. She couldn’t do any job now because of the social unacceptance. Tongi, Bangladesh 2019


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