The amazing BBC Documentary Archive has made a documentary about maids available online. I highly recommend it, considering the very substantial coverage of maids in Singapore and their human rights abuses around the world.

The statistic that struck me most was how human rights organizations have documented over 147 cases of maids plunging to their deaths in Singapore. It took 147 preventable deaths for Singapore to outlaw maids cleaning the outside of windows on high-rise buildings.

References

  1. Judith Kampfner, “Maids: The Untold Story“, BBC Documentary Archive, 2007-08-01.