Modern Slavery in GCC Countries

This is a fascinating story . Thanks for posting this .

I just returned to my home Jacksonville Beach, Florida---from my trip to Kuwait. My parents have a "maid", Maryam. She is from India as well. Personally, I have never been comfortable with the idea of having a maid. My family conforms to the Kuwaiti standard of having a big house, having four cars (actually its three SUVs and one Mercedes), and a maid that cooks and cleans. I think only only difference in their case is that Maryam does not live with them. I dont know the conditions of where she lives, though my father would have definitely checked. I know plenty of families that take tremendous care of their "servants", though in the end, they are still servants, and there tons of other servants being mistreated and abused. The only way this issue would truly gain more recognition is if the foreign labor force united all at once and threatened to leave together if their conditions and rights were not improved. The bureaucratic approach will most likely keep the current momentum, which leaves many people to be part of what is called "slave labor".

Ha!!!! Cool Nice to see you Vierotchka... Have not seen you for a couple days... =) Great article... Voted Up.... +^d!!!

What a concept. Now corporations work it from both ends. If you refuse to be a corporate slave they export your job. When will they start importing labor? They don't have to as labor imports itself across our borders everyday. It saves corporations the cost of a ticket.

Great post and comment

A great post, and a profoundly serious issue.
It's not anomalous that great concentrations of wealth have horribly exploited human labor.
The difference now is the concentrated toxic confluence of unregulated globalization and the human population explosion.

The supply and demand laws of capitalism apply to human labor as well as to any other product or resource. In great quantity, human labor is devalued in proportion to its surplus.

The core evil here one can do something about, is the collaboration of governments in allowing, or participating in, this massive, essentially unregulated, global system of exploitation.

Contrary to the emotional comforts of returning to tribalism and nationalism,
any rational person who labors, or who cares for people who labor, would do everything in their power to support, strengthen, and enforce international law and human rights.

The genie is out of the bottle. The darker winds of globalization, aided by the powerfully concentrated power of money and political power, are tearing what's left of this tattered globe apart.

Each of us are part of the millions of people only half-informed abut the consequences making a quite rational personal decision to utilize the benefits of cheap labor. The barriers of borders and distance are factious now.
What goes around, comes around. Now, it comes around with a vengeance and a velocity that few can react to sensibly, and none can resist individually.

the plot thickens...

good post V!