Making the Invisible, Visible: The First Step to Stop the Abuse of Domestic Workers

In Malaysia there have been many cases of the abuse of domestic workers. Some of the employers beat, starve, rape and lock them. I think that this should stop, that the employers that do torture their domestic helper have to realize that they are people too. Everyone has the right to live and work in a safe environment and a healthy environment. They have the right to eat healthy and they have right to leave if they want to. They are humans too. They have human rights. 

I think that this is a very delicate situation that is important for my community to know about because if they know then they will do something about it and the more people that start to treat their domestic helpers properly the more they help improve someones life. By knowing that the domestic helpers should be treated properly they can help tell others and inform others of what is happening to some of these domestic helpers making them want to do something about it.
During my research I was surprised that most of the employers that physically abuse their domestic helpers are female. I found this very strange as I thought that it would be the male that physically abuse their domestic helpers as they are stronger and less patient than females. I thought that females would not do such horrible things, but i did know that some female mentally abuse their domestic works. Deep inside this all surprises me.
Learning about this issue makes me sick, it makes me feel sick to know that there are people in this world that are capable of torture and slavery. It makes me sick to know that people are suffering everyday and that they cant leave. It makes me sick to know that people are been treated like animals and it makes me sick  to know that this is happening in the country that I live in. It makes me sick knowing that this is also happening all over the world. Learning about this issue also makes me sad, it makes me sad to know that for manny years in the past there have been people fighting for their rights and to know that all their hard work is slowly going to the trash as people have started to treat other human beings as slaves. This is a sad issue that should be stopped.

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