ADDIS ABABA, June 5 (Xinhua) -- A draft bill to ratify an agreement on establishing legalized domestic employment scheme with Saudi Arabia was tabled to the Ethiopian House of People's Representatives (HoPR) on Tuesday. The agreement, which was signed between the two governments on May 25 in Jeddah, mainly aimed to recruit Ethiopian domestic workers to Saudi Arabia. The bill, which is yet to be ratified by the HoPR, Ethiopian parliament's lower house, came shortly after Saudi Arabia's recent move to extradite undocumented migrants. According to the latest agreement signed by the two countries, the Ethiopian government will send qualified domestic workers and ensure that they have no criminal record. The bill, in order to avoid the suffering of Ethiopians' who travelled to Saudi Arabia via illegal routes with the help of human traffickers, called on the two governments to ensure the recruitment of Ethiopian domestic workers through recruitment agencies or companies.

Source: Ethiopian News June 05, 2018 18:11 UTC