Abstract:
Violence against maid servant is a serious human rights problem, associated with
different health, family and social consequences in both industrialist and
developing countries (Koeing et al, 2006; WHO, 2002; 2005). It is an everyday
human rights problem in all parts of the world, cutting across ages, religions,
societies, ethnicities and geographical borders (Garcia-monero, 2006; Gruskin,
2003; Stenson, 2004; WHO, 1998; 2002; Xu et al). Human rights are rights
inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex,
national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. Domestic
maid violence is an assault and coercive behavior, which mainly includes
physical, psychological and at times sexual too, by employer or household
members of employer against a person hired as a domestic help. As it is an
important global issue, Maid abuse is well known but poorly documented in
scientific literature. In reality, the life of these working people has not yet been
investigated much and we have a very little knowledge about socio economic and
human rights condition of these people. An attempt has been made in this research
to understand the human rights situation of the maid servants in Dhaka city. This
research however tries to identify the condition of human rights in Bangladesh in
case of violence against maid- servant in Dhaka city
