Many Human Rights Abuses Impact More Significantly on Women

This essay argues that several human right cases of abuse, which influence women more than anything does. It explores domestic violence, exploitation of domestic workers, and the challenges faced by women in accessing justice. The essay concludes by calling for effective policies and laws for protecting women from human rights abuses.

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Introduction
It is reported that the rate of imprisonment in women has been dramatically growing
in both worldwide locations as well as Australia over the past few years (Tickner 2018). In
this context, rising discrimination against women might help to report their growing numbers
in the system of criminal justice that is also a concern in its own human right. Exploring into
the aspect of NSW and other parts of the world it is evident that women are increasingly
turning in to subjects of direct as well as indirect discrimination based on their sex, race and
abuses, court and prison systems.
However, changes within the legalisation and activities present within the system
over the period of last years have negatively influenced a specific group of people,
particularly on poor and racially connoted women. The essay aims to argue, that there are
several human right cases of abuse, which influence the women more than anything does.
It has been seen that thousands of women house cleaners from all over the world
continue to be tortured and taken to Saudi Arabia with a sheer promise of established jobs
instead they are tortured and abused by the employers. Similar to these thousands of other
women who went for work as a house cleaner in the United Kingdom and Australia have
been typically abused and mentally tortured (NewsComAu 2018).
Discussion
The International Centre for Research on Women is carrying out a three years
continuous research session that started in the year 1997 based on domestic violence in India
in collaboration with a range of researchers. In this context, there are almost 53 million
domestic female workers in a global scenario and almost 21.5 million working in South East
Asia (NewsComAu. 2018). However, in spite of the small number of migrant domestic
workers in Australia, there are several adverse cases related to exploitation of domestic house

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cleaners in Australia. This issue has increased in the current years. However, Hodge and
Rayda (2018) state that the Australian government has taken a leadership responsibility for
protecting human trafficking, including the wellbeing of the domestic workers in the global
scenario. On the contrary, Rich (2018) reported through a systematic review of Human rights
in Correctional services for the federally sentenced female population that presented various
rectifying policies and practices that discriminated against women based on the sex, race and
disability. Chonghaile (2018) reported that there is more than a million number of domestic
maids who are working in Saudi Arabia taken from Australia for making them work in the
world’s largest oil exporting company.
According to the accessible statistics on domestic violence received from all around
the globe, one out of each of the three women has experienced violence while dealing with
the household relationship at a certain point of time (Broderick 2018). However, there are
very few studies that are available that indicates physical abuse of domestic women ranging
from 22% to almost 60 women that are being surveyed (NewsComAu 2018). In this, most of
the studies that are available consists of information related to the qualitative results of a
limited size of the sample. In this regards, the only large-scale data that have achieved are
related to crimes caused against the women reported by the National Crimes Record Bureau.
The records in this context show that there is a 71.5% increase in the incident of torture and
dowry during the era of 1991 to 1995 that may even reflect growing reporting of violence
(Icrw.org. 2018).
Rosario (2018) states that the definition of domestic violence can be a wide based on
a focused or targeted issue. However, domestic violence is a frequent perception of abuse
against adult women that is constricted to physical harm usually within a marital relationship.
On the contrary, to this, King (2016) argued stating that this perception may conquer a broad
universe of understanding about the presence of women who belong from nuclear families. It

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has a definition that extends to multiple definitions across culture. Causing violence and
abusing household workers are also a type of domestic violence within household
surroundings. These concepts are more inclusive about the experiences of all the women.
Most of the working labours who are being sent to countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka
and the Philippines have been a subject of abuse and poor health (ReliefWeb 2018). This is
because they are hardly equipped with the socio-cultural psychological ailments for tracking
the complicacies of the worldwide marketplace. There are millions of girls and women
around the globe that are employed as domestic works in different private householder just
like Lisao. They are given the responsibility to clean, cook, take care of children, supervising
the elder employees and need to perform the essential task for their employers. Despite their
hard work and struggle, they become subject of the violation of human rights and abuse that
impact their life as a woman.
In this regards, the right organisation shows that several domestic workers have to
work in difficult circumstances and they often suffer from abuses by employers. For instance,
an incident reported a death of a 21-year-old Indonesian house cleaner who has been
allegedly tortured by her Malaysian employers. An incident highlighted widespread abuses
that are usually faced by different overseas workers across various location. In this case,
Hodge and Rayda (2018) argued that Ms Lisao who was a house cleaner died due to multiple
organ failure, where the woman was found lying by the floor of a porch with several head and
face injuries. The employer of the house cleaner was a 60-year-old woman and her adult son
as well daughter.
Despite that, developments made for protecting the overseas workers, the predicament
of such women such as Lisao remains unsolved. Existing social insurance schemes tend to set
out on several other contingencies that impact upon the overseas house cleaner workers.

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However, the majority of issues triggers from complaints of non-paid salaries, breach of
contract, adverse working conditions and problems in cultural issues. However, the woman
who experiences the worst of it is the people like Lisao, where their brutal dilemma becomes
public much later.
Until now, Australia has not ratified this Human rights convention. On which the
existing government has not given out any necessary ratification. This is because Australian
laws comply with the human right convention and offer protection to the domestic overseas
worker's inequality to the other workforce (Karp 2018). However, from a global scenario,
domestic workers are amongst most of the marginalised and most exploited workers present
on the planet in spite of their economic and social values to the household. In this context, the
ILO estimated that the domestic workers earn less than half the average wages of the other
workers in the employment market (Hodge and Rayda 2018). On the contrary, Janes (2017)
stated that the situation is further worse for the overseas domestic workers; some of them are
recruited through the intermediaries who have no direct interaction with their employer
before starting their work. As a result of which they may also face difficulty issue due to
language barriers. There are several cases surrounding the globe that reveals adverse
conditions of the migrant house cleaner workers sufferings provided with an increasing
evidence of cases within Australian areas as well.
In support of this, Sikkink and Lutz (2017) state that within Australia, economic
growth and the growth in participation of women in the workforce is driving the demand in
relation to home help services. This is collaborated by an international growth in the
migration of women workers highly from the establishing countries for seeking overseas
labour as house cleaners. According to the department of overseas and border protection
statistics, almost 400 overseas domestic house cleaners may be rising in number. As stated by
Decker et al. (2015) domestic workers are increasingly being exploited and help in captives

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like the situation in Australia in spite of their robust standards of employment. There is a
number of Australian incidents of domestic violence and human trafficking.
According to Ellsberg et al. (2015), violence against women has been increasingly
acknowledged as the barrier to the barriers to the identification of all human rights.
Abolishment of violence amongst women is critical to the capability of women for taking part
in the civil, political, and cultural dimensions of the communities. However, despite the
accomplishment of significant milestones in the merging women rights and gender equality
across national and international levels, there are remains of consistent and developed sets of
difficulties that are hampering the efforts of promotion and protection of human rights for the
women. Cornwall (2016) states that these issues are high due to the holistic approach that
addresses significant individuals, structural components, and the after effect of violence as
well as abuses against women workers.
Lewis et al. (2015) identified some consistent challenges that called for the
implementation of various policies and preventive measures for struggling against violence
caused to the female domestic workers around the international boundary. In this context, a
different set of legal standards with a specific supervising body that is negotiated by all the
members of the United Nations is immediately needed for ensuring the effective examination
of the violation of the systematic human rights. According to Karim and Beardsley (2016),
focusing on these factors, transformative changes are necessary and more necessarily it
requires a proper commitment of the states to remain bound by a particular legal restriction in
the path towards the elimination of the broadly spread violation of human rights. It is due to
the violation of the standards, that some of the international and regional human rights
governing bodies go beyond including women in the list of vulnerable groups. This has
started to incorporate the experiences of the women and perception.

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It is quite evident that despite that progress taken by the government on human rights
may of the challenges remained un-solved, violence against the women continues at
breathtaking rates. Therefore, domestic violence appears to be on an increasing rate as
tensions are growing with the increase of the global economic crisis. Xiang and Lindquist
(2014) that gender-based discrimination persists within different households and workplaces
have reported it. In the year 2008, the United Nations fund population informed that the
number of women dying because of the domestic issue is essentially unresolved since the
year 1990. Access to effective justice has been consistently hindered by various challenges
including a restriction in some of the centres, discounted evidence given by the women, lack
of training of judges. In this context, Ross et al. (2016) stated that religion and tradition as
well as a culture used to be the protective shield for the violation of women rights. In spite of
the strong statements implemented by the states under the United Nations.
Conclusion
Therefore, from the above study, it is evident that the idea of "respectable feminist” is
an essential structure of the world. Gender and class interplays with the individual agency for
each of the person. In this context, women struggle to the prevailing address is dependent on
her variously changing subjectivity that affects her tolerance in a different way. In case of
certain situations, it is the class of the women as well as their social background, which
demonstrate her reasons. Again, in some other situation, it is her educational background and
political dedication, which frame the nature of opinion. However, it can be said from the
above study, that many of the women move to the overseas location in several employment
due to poverty due to the costs and opportunities that are involved to it. Therefore, it is seen
that several human rights abuse impact more on women because some groups present in
Australia specifically the minority including Aboriginal and Torres islander people, and
migrants from non-English culture are vulnerable to human rights abuses. This is because

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human rights can influence any women as a result of which women might face discrimination
in their workplace due to their age, race and gender.
In the case of Lisao, the migrant died due to the torture of the employers. It can be
argued that there need to be effective policies and laws for protecting house cleaners such as
Adeline Lisao from the captivation of abusive employers. Although there are several human
rights policies, people in developing countries are increasing violating those policies by not
paying their wages, by not giving them a mandatory weekly day off and many issues that are
more abusive. It can be strong claims that nobody deserves to be subjected to such ill-
treatment and abuse. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the perpetrators are penalised
and sent a clear message for the violation of human rights that influences women.

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