World Report 2011 - Human Rights Watch

WALLS AT EVERY TURNABUSE OF MIGRANTDOMESTIC WORKERS IN KUWAITby Moises Saman/Magnum PhotosKuwait has the highest ratio of domestic workers to citizens in theMiddle East. The country’s more than 660,000 migrant domesticworkers constitute nearly a third of the work force in this small Gulfcountry of only 1.3 million citizens. But domestic workers areexcluded from the labor laws that protect other workers. They haveminimal protection against employers who withhold salaries, forceemployees to work long hours with no days off, deprive them ofadequate food, or abuse them physically or sexually.