Deprived Human Rights
A certain housekeeper named María Ríos Fun were subjected to verbal abuse and psychological coercion not only that, she was forced to work as many as 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for little or no compensation. She was given only four days off in six months as well. The worst thing was, she did all the household chores including baby-sitting, driving the children to and from school, tending the garden and care for the house guests in exchange of a little or no compensation at all and was given only “very basic food, like bread and coffee in doing all those things.
Her employer, Marita Puertas Pulgar, first secretary of the Peruvian mission, and her partner, Alexis Aquino Albegrin, had promised her fair wages and a humane work schedule when they recruited her in Lima, Peru. Then, Ms. Rios signed a contract establishing the terms of her employment before coming to the United States but when she arrived, her employers revealed hidden intentions and breach the signed contract.
On April 27, Ms. Ríos called a national human trafficking hot line that was listed in documents she had been given at the United States embassy in Lima. She fled and was eventually introduced to Safe Horizon, an agency in New York City that helps crime victims, which has provided her with counseling, shelter, legal representation and other support.
Ms. Ríos, 40, filed a lawsuit. The lawsuit said Ms. Ríos was seeking the return of her belongings as well as unspecified back wages and damages for trafficking and breach of contract.
“I don’t want others to go through what I did,” she said.
My Reaction:
Oh! My goodness!! how humiliating it was....I feel for her.. I cannot imagine myself as if I'm in her shoe, I can't take it really. I'll pray for her.
Yes, work is a fundamental right and a good for mankind, a useful good, worthy of man because it is an appropriate way for him to give expression to and enhance his human dignity. But is there any proof that those things were applied? No.. what has been applied were cruelty, injustice and brutality.
I'm sorry guys if I reacted this way I really feel for her. Where are the rights of the worker on that situation? : the right to a just wage; the right to rest; the right “ to a working environment and to manufacturing processes which are not harmful to the workers' physical health or to their moral integrity”; the right that one's personality in the workplace should be safeguarded “without suffering any affront to one's conscience or personal dignity; the right to eat the right food she needs and may others. “Asa naman ni tanan? ” These rights were deprived and been neglected by the employer of Ms. Rios.
Also, God commanded us to keep holy on the Sabbath day. How can Ms. Rios have her freewill and appropriate relaxation of mind and body, as well as worshipping God on the Lord's Day without hindrances, if she was obliged not to do such things for she doesn't have rightful days off?
We, human persons must remember that God said to us that whatever you do unto others you do it to me. So if we do evil things, deprived the right of the others as well make some abuses to others, we do it to God as well. We must not forget that because of the gratuitous love of the Father to us that's why we are saved. He sent his only son Jesus Christ to save us from our sins, He suffered and died for us in order for us to be save yet, still we always forgot that one, due to earthly priorities that we have. And that priorities lead us to do evil to others. Yes, we are all sinners but we must not live and dwell with it.
We must not prioritized other things than God and we must realized that only God is the sole owner of our lives and He is the only one who has the right to take it away from us. We are all created in the image and likeness of God so we must respect human dignity and care for the welfare of others for we are created equally with equal rights too.
I duly rest my case..
