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Choco (User)
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Re:Asia Women 3 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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Here's a news of Indonesian migrant workers :
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&
item_no=208709&version=1&template_id=45&parent_id=25
Often when I travel back and forth between Dubai and Jakarta, most seats were occupied with Indonesian migrant workers, some of them were new, some were returning workers.
They would share stories about their place of work, their bosses, and also their punishments ( The slaps - by hands or slippers - were 'daily snacks' ) which were unimaginable (ironed, locked days with no food or water, and many things).. yet.. so many workers returned as dead bodies still didnot make the government to do something. |
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linsi (Moderator)
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Re:Asia Women 3 Months, 1 Week ago
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hi Choco,
i wonder where is your posted response in asia women ? 
nevertheless here is a related excerpt from what you stated:
like the indonesian women counterparts-
"Filipino women rank among the most mobile or migratory in Asia," said sociologist Maruja Asis of the University of the Philippines.
Women are expected to make up an increasingly high percentage of the work force
Overseas work has its risks. Some 700 workers, mostly women,
die each year following mistreatment by their employers,
according to recent figures released by the
Filipino House of Representatives Committee on
Overseas Foreign Workers.
But women activists say the mortality figure is likely to be even higher. An anonymous source at Ninoy Aquino International Airport says that 40 foreign workers arrive home in coffins each week.
Most cases of death and abuse against female overseas workers occur in Arab countries. The best-known case involved Sarah Balabagan, a domestic worker in the United Arab Emirates, who in 1995 stabbed her male employer after he tried to rape her. Balabagan was sentenced to death, but international outcry led to the reduction of her term, and she returned to the Philippines after serving nine months in jail. Earlier, another Filipino domestic worker was executed in Singapore for double murder.
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linsi (Moderator)
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Re:Asia Women 2 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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At the other end of the spectrum,
the planet's best countries for women to live in are:
Sweden,
Norway,
Finland,
Ireland,
New Zealand,
Philippines,
Germany,
Denmark,
Ireland and Spain.
Not even one of the top-ten is a Muslim-majority state.
At long last,one of the best news articles i've read-
the planet's best countries for women to live in..
Philippines is one of the best countries
i can say "yes" the philippines is not patriarchal
on the other hand it is more of being matriarchal
and most of the time women, many of them in the philippines
are pampered by the males ( i said many of us..)
not to mention that higher percentage of filipino
women go out as overseas foreign workers and that is
around the globe which make them feel more important.
a bit of relief!
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=107809
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JIANGYOU, China (CNN) -- A Chinese police officer is being hailed as a hero after taking it upon herself to breast-feed several infants who were separated from their mothers or orphaned by China's devastating earthquake.
Officer Jiang Xiaojuan, 29, the mother of a 6-month-old boy, responded to the call of duty and the instincts of motherhood when the magnitude-7.9 quake struck on May 12.
"I am breast-feeding, so I can feed babies. I didn't think of it much," she said. "It is a mother's reaction and a basic duty as a police officer to help."
The death toll in the earthquake jumped Thursday to more than 51,000, and more than 29,000 are missing, according to government figures. Thousands of children have been orphaned; many others have mothers who simply can't feed them.
At one point, Jiang was feeding nine babies.
"Some of the moms were injured; their fathers were dead ... five of them were orphans . They've gone away to an orphanage now," she said
She still feeds two babies, including Zhao Lyuyang, son of a woman who survived the quake but whose breast milk stopped flowing because of the traumatic conditions.
We walked out of the mountains for a long time. I hadn't eaten in days when I got here, and my milk was not enough," said that mother, Zhao Zong Jun. "She saved my baby. I thank her so much. I can't express how I feel."
Liu Rong, another mother whose breast milk stopped in the trauma, was awed by Jiang's kindness.
"I am so touched because she has her own baby, but she fed the disaster babies first," Liu said. "If she hadn't fed my son, he wouldn't have had enough to eat."
Jiang has became a celebrity, followed by local media and proclaimed on a newspaper front page as "China's Mother No. 1."
She's embarrassed by the fuss.
"I think what I did was normal," she said. "In a quake zone, many people do things for others. This was a small thing, not worth mentioning
There has been a huge outpouring of support from families who want to adopt babies orphaned by the quake. But that process takes time, and there are mouths to feed.
Jiang misses her own son, who's being cared for through the emergency by in-laws in another town, but she is aware of the new connections she's made.
"I feel about these kids I fed just like my own. I have a special feeling for them. They are babies in a disaster."
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Harassed in India: Women face an uphill battle in a culture that devalues females
By Raymond Thibodeaux
February 22, 2008
In its global campaign to attract foreign tourists, India's "Incredible India" ads feature a young woman enjoying her morning yoga session on a secluded beach.
In reality, what female tourists experience too often is this: persistent ogling and heckling by Indian men.
"At times I find it hard traveling around as a woman in Delhi. I've been groped twice in public," said Amanda Burrell, 36, a blue-eyed, blond-haired documentary filmmaker from England on vacation in India. "I think Indian women have it much worse."
If the Indian male ever had a reputation for being suave and sophisticated, that image has hit rock bottom. In recent weeks a spate of attacks against women and a new study showing rape as the fastest-growing crime in New Delhi are painting a less flattering picture.
In India, the fact that men are being held under such heightened scrutiny is a sign of changing social rules between men and women as the country modernizes.
While more and more Indian women move into the high-tech workforce or rise to key government posts in the new India, some analysts say many women appear to be losing the battle to overcome centuries-old cultural attitudes that tend to devalue the role of women and keep them dependent on men.
"Many of India's social values have not kept pace with the development of its modern cities," said Shaibal Gupta, a social analyst for the Asian Development Research Institute, a nongovernmental agency based in the northeastern Indian state of Bihar.
India's predominantly Hindu culture is skewed in favor of boys and men, say some social experts. In India's deep-rooted system of dowry, a bride's family pays the groom for marrying her - a custom that has been outlawed but only loosely enforced.
"Most Indian men don't have opportunities for intimate contact with women until their mid-20s," Gupta said. "For some of them, their only exposure to women in a sexual context has been in the virtual realms of Bollywood and Internet porn sites."
For many women in India, the result can be terrifying.
In an incident that rattled the country, dozens of young men taunted and groped two girls as they left a New Year's Eve party at a popular five-star hotel in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. An Indian newspaper photographer called the police and recorded the melee in a shocking series of photos that ran on the front page of almost every major newspaper in India, launching a flurry of editorials.
In a televised interview, the outraged chief of India's ministry for women and child development called for the death penalty for those convicted of rape.
There have been several high-profile assaults recently against foreign women in India. A British freelance journalist allegedly was raped by the owner of a guesthouse where she was staying in northern India. A 28-year-old American tourist was groped by a Hindu priest while visiting a temple in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan.
Several Western embassies have issued warnings on the dangers women often face in India.
"I get stared at, and sometimes men approach me and say things. But I've lived in India long enough that I've almost stopped paying attention to it," said Lauren Olsen, 16, a student at an American school in Delhi.
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