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| Kuwaiti Social Media Star Sondos Alqattan. Image credit to www.yandex.com |
Earlier this month,
Kuwait released a new regulation that allows domestic workers to have a one day off and a privilege to keep the passport that is often taken away from them.
A loud noise slams Kuwaiti Social Media Star Sondos Alqattan after
posting her video criticizing showing her discontentment about the
said new regulation. Soon, became her Cosmetic Brands terminated.
Sondos
Alqattan, a make-up artist with 2.3 million followers on Instagram,
asked;
"How
can you have a servant at home who has her passport with her?"
She added;
"She will have a
day off a week, and work six days a week, and of course you won't know happens
on these days, while her passport is with her."
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| Kuwaiti Social Media Star Sondos Alqattan. Image credit to YouTube |
Comments are keep coming
as they label Ms. Alqattan's video as Racist and Cosmetic Brand's certainty cut
their ties with the female Kuwaiti. One of the ties is Chelsea Beautique,
a make-up company, declared that it would be removed from her Instagram
account.
"We believe that
decent working conditions should be provided to everyone and such behavior does
not represent our brand's core beliefs."
Gulf News also
reported that even the spokesman M Micallef and his company were
"shocked" by the comments of the Kuwaiti Social Media Star. They came
up to a conclusion of finishing the relationship with Ms.Alqattan.
Social Media Users
shares their thoughts and some raised eyebrows as she defends herself in
another video. "What do human rights have to do with (the worker) keeping
her passport? Even our kids don't hold on to their passport."
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| Image credit to Bored Panda |
Kuwait is one of the
countries that have the most number of domestic workers. Out of the population of
4 Million, almost 700,000 domestic workers were employed in Kuwait and a lot of
them were Filipinos. Recently, deploying domestic workers was temporarily
banned after the incident of the ruthless killing of a maid and hide her body
in a freezer.
Negotiation had been
made and Kuwait approved to grant domestic workers protections. Through years
of protest by human rights groups in response to numerous abuses experienced by
domestic workers, this may be one of the fruits of their voice and an action of
our Present Administration.
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