Economics: Labour: Domestics (esp live-in workers) in certain countries are routinely exploited in extreme ways

CSM carries a precis of a Reuters piece on "The hard lives of domestics who work abroad," lead by the headline question "What free time?" At first glance it isn't apropos to the USA or Canada, but actually domectic workers on our continent are often extremely exploited as well. I know, as my mother worked as a live-in domestic and sometimes as a nanny on several occasions. But here's the story of domestic employees from these so-called "Hiring Nations" : Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Lebanon.

However, the article appears under the column or feature headline, Etc... followed by the lines The lighter side of news, and the daily list.
Compiled from wire reports by staff.
Frankly, I find that "liter side of news" excrable.

Mexico is not on the Reuters list, but maybe it should be in lite of this 4yr old report.

Here's CSM's newsletter precis:

What free time? The hard lives of domestics who work abroad

Out of economic necessity, thousands of young women agree to take jobs overseas that pay them little and require as many as 18 hours of work a day, seven days a week. That's according to a Human Rights Watch researcher who recently completed a study of the lives of domestics. In her report, "Swept Under the Rug: Domestic Workers Around the World," Nisha Varia says most of their waking hours are spent cleaning, cooking, serving meals, and caring for their employers' children, the elderly, and ill relatives. With no precise data available, Varia drew various conclusions from her interviews with such women. Among them, the countries that are the leading suppliers of domestics as well as those where most are hired:

World Economy > Labour

~~b~~Supplier nations~~/b~~
~~br/~~ Indonesia
~~br/~~ Philippines
~~br/~~ Sri Lanka
~~br/~~ India
~~br/~~



~~b~~Hiring nations~~/b~~
~~br/~~ Singapore
~~br/~~ Hong Kong
~~br/~~ Malaysia
~~br/~~ Taiwan
~~br/~~ Saudi Arabia
~~br/~~ Kuwait
~~br/~~ United Arab Emirates
~~br/~~ Bahrain
~~br/~~ Lebanon
~~br/~~


- Reuters

CSM's email newsletter supplies the barbaric digital punctation, but not on the original page. Only in the newsletter. The newsletter gets a most neglectful treatment, like the domestics in this litely-treated zone of attention. I find the newspaper's column/feature headline over this info on the orginal page offensive (but it's not preent in the email version).

Given its name and ownership, overall I find CSM h+ly deserving of the appelation "Christian journalism," in most regards (theology aside, of course, but sometimes in its theology article too, each edition). However, regarding the treatment of the report from Reuters (which makes no claim to being Christian journalism), that treatment by CSM is not up to par of the standard it usually sets for North Aerican daily-newspaper journalism.

--Politicarp