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Man arrested in Qatar for human trafficking

  • Hala Abdallah
  • December 28, 2021
Qatar’s ministry of interior said ‘an African national’ was detained for trafficking people into Qatar. Qatari authorities said on Monday they arrested a man for illegally employing absconded domestic workers…
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QF’s Sheikha Hind responds to student letter on detained security guard

  • Farah AlSharif
  • May 20, 2021
QF chairperson and CEO Sheikha Hind has issued a statement in response to a letter about the case of a detained security guard in Qatar. Some 240 Qatar Foundation (QF)…
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Amnesty International: ‘Ongoing abuse of domestic workers in Qatar’

  • Doha News Team
  • October 20, 2020
Stressed, overworked and abused, in its latest report, rights group Amnesty International says this is the reality for many domestic workers. Meanwhile, the government says it’s ready to punish employers…
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Domestic workers stuck in Doha

  • Farah Gomaa
  • July 22, 2020
by Farah Gomaa Doha News talks to two housemaids who have been stranded in Doha since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Mishi Tengo is a 29-year-old housemaid who has lived in…
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The average salary of a domestic worker in Qatar is $431 a month

  • Lesley Walker
  • September 17, 2016
That's on par with Saudi Arabia and more than in Kuwait, but household staff make marginally more in the UAE – AED1,592 ($433) a month.
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Domestic workers in Qatar plead for help in handwritten note

  • Aparajita Mukherjee
  • July 26, 2016
This is the most recent example of alleged domestic worker abuse in Qatar. Rights groups said such reports are not uncommon because these women's rights often go unprotected.
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Qatar court upholds human trafficking conviction after woman dies

  • Peter Kovessy and Riham Sheble
  • June 21, 2016
Yesterday, the Court of Appeal upheld an eight-year prison sentence for Adnan Mustafa Eid Muhammad. He stands accused of dumping the body of an Indonesian domestic worker outside Hamad General Hospital in 2014.
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Jail time appealed after woman’s corpse dumped at Qatar hospital

  • Peter Kovessy and Riham Sheble
  • May 23, 2016
A defense lawyer argued that there was nothing that one of the defendants could have done to save the Indonesian expat's life and suggested that Hamad Medical Corp. – as well as the woman herself – bore some responsibility.
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Qatar labor ministry shares advice on sponsoring househelp

  • Peter Kovessy and Riham Sheble
  • March 31, 2016
The ministry’s announcement emphasizes the rights of the sponsors who are hiring domestic workers through recruitment agencies.
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