A lawyer in Ghana is urging the government to prohibit women under the age of 30 years from traveling to countries in the Middle East as part of the solution to reports of abuse, reports Joy news.
John Kwame Quayeson believes that by banning the travel of young women to the part of the world tackle the growing reports of the women being victims of abuse in that part of the world.
“There’s everything wrong with our females going to some countries, notably Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Some die and it is the reality on the ground,” John Quayeson told Joy News.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in 2016 raised concerns about increasing reports of Ghanaian female migrants being abused in the Middle East.
Out of the more than 2,000 women who left to work in the Middle East between September 2014 & January 2015 alone, more than 350 of them have returned from countries like Kuwait and Jordan with cases of inhumane working conditions, physical and emotional torture, as well as sexual exploitation, according to IOM.
The private lawyer quoted the Dubai Ban of 2015, which prohibited Nigerian women that are single or unmarried under the age of 40 years from visiting the country without being in company of a person with a similar name over the age of 40.
Quayeson hoped Dubai will help in his argument, clarifying that he was not concentrating on men because there has been no reports of abuse on men.
