Some women and girls being recruited successful Viet Nam to service arsenic home workers successful Saudi Arabia, are suffering intersexual maltreatment and torture, starring a radical of UN independent human rights experts connected Thursday to telephone connected some nations to curb quality trafficking. 

“We are seeing traffickers targeting Vietnamese women and girls surviving successful poverty, galore of whom are already susceptible and marginalized. Traffickers operate with impunity”, they said successful a statement. 

After signing connected with labour recruitment companies successful Viet Nam, some girls and women recovered themselves sexually abused, beaten and subjected to torture and different cruel treatments by employers erstwhile they arrived successful Saudi Arabia. 

Often these women are denied nutrient and aesculapian treatment, not paid astatine all, oregon paid little than stipulated successful their contracts. 

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Urging the 2 countries to do much to combat trafficking and to protect these workers, the experts warned that all cooperation should beryllium based on human rights’ principles, and assure accountability. 

“Saudi Arabia should bring migrant home workers nether its labour instrumentality protections and widen the reforms of its kafala strategy to specified workers”, they said, referring to a mechanism used to show migrant laborers, moving chiefly successful the operation and domestic service sectors.  

The group highlighted “truly alarming allegations” that immoderate companies successful Viet Nam recruited girls arsenic home workers and forged their property connected documents, to fell the information they were children. 

They share the lawsuit of one 15 year-old Vietnamese miss who became sick due to the fact that of beatings inflicted by her employer, who besides denied her nutrient and aesculapian treatment. 

She arranged to return home, but died earlier she could committee her formation back. Because her documents had been forged, her household has not yet received the body, truthful they can laic her to rest. 

‘Alleged engagement of nationalist authorities’ 

In little than a two month span, betwixt 3 September and 28 October 2021, nearly 205 women, galore alleged victims of trafficking, have been repatriated to Viet Nam. 

The experts called on the southeast Asian country to fortify the payment services and assistance provided to these women, including ineligible assistance, aesculapian and psychosocial care. 

They also urged some governments to behaviour an impartial and autarkic investigation, including allegations of involvement of nationalist authorities. 

“We further punctual Viet Nam and Saudi Arabia of their planetary ineligible obligations to cooperate successful bid to combat trafficking in persons, including successful transgression justness investigations, proviso of effectual remedies and assistance to victims of trafficking,” they concluded. 

The experts have been successful interaction with both countries and, according to their statement, would similar to proceed this “constructive engagement”. 

The connection was signed by 4 experts: Siobhán Mullally, Special Rapporteur connected trafficking successful persons, particularly women and children; Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur connected torture and different cruel, inhuman oregon degrading attraction oregon punishment; Tomoya Obokata, Special Rapporteur connected modern forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences;  and Felipe González Morales, Special Rapporteur connected the quality rights of migrants. 

Special Rapporteurs and autarkic experts are appointed by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to examine and study back on a circumstantial quality rights taxable oregon a state situation. The positions are honorary and the experts are not paid for their work.