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Philippines claims Saudi boss forced maid to drink bleachAFPPresident Rodrigo Duterte claims that Arab employers routinely rape their Filipino maidsThe report is the latest incident of alleged mistreatment of Filipino workers in the Middle East (AFP)Monday 16 April 2018 11:51 UTCLast update: Monday 16 April 2018 12:31 UTCA Filipina domestic worker has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia after her employer allegedly forced her to drink household bleach, Manila's foreign ministry said on Monday.Domestic worker Agnes Mancilla underwent emergency abdominal surgery after she was taken, unconscious, to a hospital in Saudi's southwestern Jizan city on 2 April, the ministry said."We are working closely with authorities in Jizan to make sure that justice will be given to Agnes Mancilla," the ministry said in a statement.Read more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/philippines-claims-saudi-boss-forced-maid-drink-bleach-1540196460
I saw a stat, thousands and thousands of Filipinos work in those countries, over 100,000 at least, maybe 2 or 3 times that number. It was posted in these forums.