Protecting Unskilled Filipino And Other Foreign Workers; Long Overdue In The Islamic Nations Of The Middle East

                                    The Islamic nations of the middle east would tremendously advance decency and humanity in this world by aggressively protecting the rights of all their foreign workers. Not just the highly skilled and educated professional foreign workers, who often do not share the fate of many of the unskilled, uneducated workers. Unskilled women in particular are highly vulnerable to rape, physical abuse, and even murder. Men and women from poor countries are frequently exploited, earning less than their promised wages. Domestic helpers are subject to beatings, loss of wages, and sexual abuse.
                                     The Philippines has not been able to adequately provide its citizens with decent jobs. (We will not delve into the driving forces, including how a tiny few control almost all of the countries wealth, resources, and often politicians, the inability to provide responsible family planning in an incredibly overpopulated country where there is enormous religious resistance, a vastly degraded environment depleted of forests, coral reefs, mangroves, with few environmental protections, few labor protections, exploitative contract labor, and more).
                                     Many Filipinos, desperate to help their families and escape poverty, risk their health, safety, and lives by going abroad to foreign lands where they are left vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. They are particularly vulnerable in a number of middle east Islamic countries where there has been a failure to protect this eager to work, vulnerable population.
                                     By undertaking initiatives to protect their foreign worker population, the Islamic countries of the middle east will be achieving a huge step forward in the advancement of human rights and decency. This must include treating their foreign workers as equals to their own citizens when it comes to their safety and welfare. Special task forces can be created that will track, monitor, and maintain in personal contact with foreign workers to ensure they are properly treated. By ensuring all human beings will be treated fairly under their jurisdiction, the Islamic nations of the middle east will be places where all people will want to work and visit. They must not continue to be places that vulnerable populations fear.