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 African Women - You can find a nice variety of information here about beautiful African women, Swaziland women, Sudan ladies, young New Guinea women, African women from Mali, Ethiopian housemaides, Women of Mauritius and more.
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Ethiopian Housemaide. Yeshiwork's case highlights the plight of thousands of Ethiopian girls (some underage) enticed to the Middle East to serve as Ethiopian housemaide and often as sexual slaves.
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Middle Eastern Land of Promise
It's known that Ethiopian women attempt to run away from the unbearable poverty in their home
country hoping to make a better living and life for them selves, have been making there way to
countries for years now. Once they got to what they considered would be a land
of promises, they realized that not only did they not find things up to their expectations but to their utter
dismay, they found as a Ethiopian Housemaide nothing but misery and suffering such as they had never thought would happen.
Yeshiwork Zewdu
Yeshiwork Zewdu, who had been working as a maid in Bahrain is in death row accused of murdering
her employer. Yeshiwork had been subjected to physical and psychological torture by her male employer, she had to face
sexual harassment, was made to work for hours at a time and had not been paid for the last two years. She
was unable to leave her employer because he had taken away her passport. Yeshiwork's case highlights the plight
of thousands of Ethiopian girls (some underage) enticed to the Middle East to serve as Ethiopian housemaid and often as
sexual slaves.
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The most relevant links we could find, placed here free
 Bahrain Tribune
- Ethiopian housemaide, Bahrain Tribune daily newspaper, Ethiopian maid succumbs to burns, 42-year-old Aisha Nasser. www.bahraintribune.com
Yebbo
- The Ethiopian authorities are appealing to Bahrain to lift a death sentence against a 20-year-old Ethiopian housemaide accused of murdering her employer. www.yebbo.com
Gulf News
- Archived Gulf news: Man gets too much to handle, a 28-year-old Ethiopian housemaide tied up. archive.gulfnews.com
Gulf Times
- Maid with contagious disease to be sent back, Ethiopian housemaid found to be infected with Hepatitis B. www.gulf-times.com
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