{"id":14406,"date":"2020-02-14T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/14\/how-nepals-migration-ban-traps-female-modern-day-slaves-in-the-gulf"},"modified":"2020-02-14T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:00:25","slug":"how-nepals-migration-ban-traps-female-modern-day-slaves-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14406","title":{"rendered":"How Nepal&rsquo;s migration ban traps female &#8216;modern day slaves&#8217; in the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rules intended to protect domestic workers have only made them more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, say activists<\/p>\n<p>Amita* knew she had to escape. After five months of being assaulted, starved and being forced to work for 20 hours a day as a domestic maid in a suburban house in Kuwait, the 45-year old from Nepal seized her chance. While the household slept, she climbed out of a downstairs bathroom window and fled.<\/p>\n<p>Amita managed to find the Nepali embassy, hoping that staff there would assure her safety and help send her home to Kathmandu. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/14\/how-nepals-migration-ban-traps-female-modern-day-slaves-in-the-gulf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rules intended to protect domestic workers have only made them more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, say activistsAmita* knew she had to escape. After five months of being assaulted, starved and being forced to work for 20 hours a day as a domesti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":986,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,59,1113,212,241,713,61,1039,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dubai","category-global-development","category-kuwait","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-nepal","category-slavery","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-arab-emirates","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406\/revisions\/14407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}