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Today, foreign women are employed in [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Kuwait]], [[Qatar]], [[Singapore]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Japan]] and [[United Arab Emirates]] in large numbers to work as [https://maidsindubai.ae/ maids] or other roles of domestic service, and are often vulnerable to multiple forms of abuse.<ref>{{cite web |last=Varia |first=Nisha |date=7 July 2008 |title="As If I Am Not Human" - Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2008/07/07/if-i-am-not-human/abuses-against-asian-domestic-workers-saudi-arabia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121104011/https://www.hrw.org/report/2008/07/07/if-i-am-not-human/abuses-against-asian-domestic-workers-saudi-arabia |archive-date=Nov 21, 2022 |website=[[Human Rights Watch]]}}</ref><ref name="the guardian1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/13/saudi-arabia-treatment-foreign-workers |date=13 January 2013| title=Saudi Arabia's treatment of foreign workers under fire after beheading of Sri Lankan maid |last=Chamberlain |first=Gethin |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=14 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="humanrightswatch1">{{cite web |author=Human Rights Watch |url=http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?page=printdoc&amp;docid=412ef32a4 |title='Bad Dreams:' Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |date=14 July 2004 |access-date=14 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312095552/https://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?page=printdoc&docid=412ef32a4 |archive-date=12 March 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> An ''ayi''{{Definition needed|date=December 2023}} works as a sort of nanny to children, and occasionally uses house work.