Is mobile access a human right - but at what price?
How one mobile operator in Jordan is trying to bring mobile access to Asian women domestic workers denied a phone If the conservatively-minded patriarch of a household in the Middle East will not let his own daughters use a mobile phone, then why would he let the foreign domestic servant use one? There are tens of thousands of young Asian women living in households across the Middle East doing domestic work. Many suffer labour rights abuses , from having their passports confiscated to non-payment of wages, 20+ hour a day working & lack of time off. One constant, that every domestic worker wants, is access to a mobile phone - but I interviewed a woman who was taken to the desert in a mock execution just because she had hidden a mobile phone against the wishes of her employer. One day we may see access to a mobile phone and the internet as a human right. Young women generally aspire to be connected to social networks, and to be free to chat and text with their friends and...