A growing number of Nepalese workers are joining the hundreds of thousands of other South Asian expatriates in the oil-rich Gulf state as they are promised high monthly wages by recruiters in Nepal.
[3] Dozens of Nepalese men are being cheated out of their wages by employers in Kuwait, despite laws designed to protect them.
Due to past cases of abuse, the Nepalese government forbids them from working there as housemaids.
While many succeed in earning the high salaries of their dreams, many more fall victim to physical and sexual abuse.
Many of these women show up at the Nepalese embassy in Kuwait bearing clear signs of sexual assault, claiming that their former employers owe them payment, and describing inhumane and illegal working conditions.