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Prior to her arrival in Singapore, Zin Mar Nwe, who was born and raised in Myanmar, was hired and trained to become a domestic maid, and she first came to Singapore on 5 January 2018. Even though her real age was 17, the agent responsible for Zin's employment registered her passport and changed her date of birth, claiming that Zin was 23 years old.
Singapore provides basic protection for foreign domestic workers, such as a standard number of working hours and rest days. Foreign workers can also report their employers to the Ministry of Manpower in the case of mistreatment, and employers have been fined or even jailed when found guilty of such acts. [35]
In 2022, Singapore ranked as the first safest country or area in the Global Law and Order Index. [3] It was also ranked third safest city in 2021 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, [4] [5] and 24th safest out of 136 countries in the Global Organised Crime Index by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. [6] [7]
SINGAPORE — Hartatik* was in her third month of employment in Singapore in 2017 when the Indonesian domestic worker began to experience constant physical abuse by her employers.
On 5 April 2021, the Government of Singapore implemented a house visit scheme where people sent by the MOM will make visits to various flats all across Singapore that employed maids, which will allow them to monitor the welfare of the foreign maids, and there will be time to file a police report should anything abnormal arise.
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (c. 17) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act included provisions necessary to ratify the Istanbul Convention. [1] Much of the content within the act is still much debated. The act is intended to help tackle domestic violence in the United Kingdom, which has been referred to as a "silent epidemic."
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This new regulation was done by Singapore's Employment Agency Act (EAA). [5] In the 2021 reporting period, it was noted that according to government reports, approximately 156,000 SGD (US$118,000) was spent in efforts to care for and support victims of trafficking. [2] This was a 48,000 SGD (US$35,247) increase from the previous year. [2]