A young Nepali woman known as Radhika Sarki who flew in to Kuwait is abused and beaten up badly. Dozens of Nepalese men are being cheated out of their wages by employers in Kuwait, despite laws designed to protect them. Many of them can barely survive on what they are paid once they get to Kuwait. Last year, the NGO was sent four-five traumatised women every month, all of them returning from Kuwait mentally unbalanced and victims of sexual exploitation. It is all the more disturbing since the government banned Nepali women from going to the Gulf to work as maids after 1998, when Kani Sherpa, a mother of four in her late 20s, died under mysterious circumstances in Kuwait. For Nepalese women, working in Kuwait can be even more hazardous than for the men. Due to past cases of abuse, the Nepalese government forbids them from working there as housemaids. The Kuwaiti government, however, was quoted in the report as saying that no widespread abuse is taking place. But the experience of thousands of domestic workers in the report tell a different story.
