Posted on 05/28/2016 3:17:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"Instructions should be issued to Indian embassy officials in Gulf countries to interfere in the matter and provide necessary help in terms of food, clothing and shelter," he wrote.
Women domestic workers from Andhra Pradesh are languishing in jails in the Gulf states after attempting to flee abusive employers or overstaying their visas, said Palle Raghunatha Reddy, minister for non-resident Indian welfare, urging the national government to help them.
In a letter to Sushma Swaraj, Reddy called for action to bring back the women. “Necessary steps should be initiated to bring them to their native areas safely by providing free travel and necessary visa documents at the earliest possible (opportunity). Instructions should be issued to Indian embassy officials in Gulf countries to interfere in the matter and provide necessary help in terms of food, clothing and shelter,” he wrote.
Government figures show there are an estimated six million Indian migrants in the six Gulf states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman. These include women who leave their villages to take up jobs overseas paying up to three times more than in India, putting their fate in the hands of recruitment agents, who often dupe them.
-In some cases, they do not have exit visas. Many others have been jailed on petty offences waiting for their case to be heard, according to the Andhra Pradesh government. Women from Andhra Pradesh and the neighbouring state of Telangana “are being sold like products in a retail shop,” Reddy wrote in the letter sent last week.
“Women are being sold to the tune of 400,000 rupees ($6,000)in Saudi Arabia and between 100,000 ($1,500) to 200,000 rupees ($3,000) in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait,” the minister wrote. He added that at least 25 women jailed in Gulf states have sought the state government’s help recently.
In response to a query in India’s parliament in March, the foreign ministry said their diplomatic missions in all six Gulf states had registered complaints of physical abuse, maltreatment, non-payment of salary, and other grievances. Requesting anonymity, a senior official in the Andhra Pradesh government said a group of ministers from the state would travel to the Gulf next month to investigate the plight of migrants from their region.
The state government is also in the process of appointing lawyers to provide legal advice to Indian prisoners in Gulf jails, the official said.
Why do you ask, evil?
True. But it’s also a way of agreeing with you. Nobody ever fixes this festering Moslem sore on planet earth so maybe if we point out just how offensive it is, maybe someone will be stirred to do something right for a change. But yes it’s a long shot and we can occasionally get dark with our humor. Thanks
The salads are fine.
Joke.
They started invasions roughly around 700 AD. A book on Amazon “Crimes Against India” is very detailed about the Moslem invasions. It was very hard to read more than a few pages at once.
Tens of millions of Hindus were killed, what to speak of tortued and enslaved. Any violence by Hindus against Moslems is microscopic. They should have been more violent. The small kingdoms did not ally themselves well enough, plus they were shocked by the level of butchery of the invaders. For instance, in Hindu warfare, many rules were followed. Such as no fighting after sunset, if the other king or general surrenders, he is taken at his word. I read of one batter where the Moslem general surrendered, and then during the night the Moslem army butchered the sleeping Hindu army.
Small hills of skulls with gouged out eyes and on and on.
Everyone needs to know the real history of Islam.
No, “Goat, woman, camel, under Islam they are all the same.”
UNDER SHARIA, ISLAMIC LAW, THEY ARE TREATED THE SAME.
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