Action plan: Addressing human rights abuses against female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia

The aim of our pledge is to raise awareness about the lack of basic human rights of women migrant labour workers in Saudi Arabia, who are often domestic workers. Through our action plan, we hope to disseminate the grave injustices to NGOs and state governments who are capable of bringing about structural change. The two specific migrant rights we are going to address are number 7 (address and reduce vulnerabilities in migration) and eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote evidence-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration (17). The main idea of our focus is to lead a documentary film with interviews of returning female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, as well as migrant advocacy groups who are documenting rights violations in the nation-state. Documenting female migrant workers will help understand their personal experiences of abuse and exploitation. Questions will discuss the duration of work, their job duties, their relationship with their employer and how they were treated by them, whether they attempted to seek treatment from the healthcare system, embassies, or any other actors, and whether it was helpful for their situations, whether they tried to contest the abuse and what the consequences were and how their gender impacted their treatment. Our action plan will be impactful for the promotion of migrant rights because it will provide insight and visibility to the working conditions female migrants face. With real-life interviews, we will be able to understand how the lack of access to basic human rights directly influence domestic migrant workers. We aim to interview domestic migrants coming from the main countries involved in the migration process with Saudi Arabia (e.g., Ethiopia, Vietnam, Bangladesh). Women interviewed would come from diverse backgrounds to be as inclusive as possible in the documentary process. We seek to get the help of transnational gender advocacy organizations to connect with them. Sharing female domestic workers stories will also highlight the truth about the discrimination domestic migrant workers face. Advocacy groups and activists need to be aware of this truth to exert pressure on the Saudi Arabian State.