The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights has expressed its alarm at new efforts in the Bahraini parliament to impose segregation on migrant workers by mandating, by law, that unmarried migrant workers be barred from living in residential areas, meaning that they would have to live in shanty towns and lab…
Archive for April, 2007
Hundreds of Filipino workers return home
April 26th, 2007
NaharNet is reporting that over 300 Filipino migrant workers from Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are returning to their home country, with Filipino Labor Secretary Arturo Brion reporting that many of them had complained of “unpaid salaries, abuses, maltreatment, sexual harassments and rapes.” ...
Transporting Workers
April 20th, 2007
Abusive employers Bahrain Gulf News Workers Working conditions
Manama, Bahrain A few weeks back, we wrote about a serious accident which put several foreign workers in hospital beds. It seems that some months prior to this incident, the Bahraini government proposed that workers be transported to and from work in covered vehicles. A normal person would interpret...
Migrant Workers in Bahrain and the problems they face
April 6th, 2007
Abusive employers Bahrain Gulf Slavery Sponsorship
The Migrant Workers Protection Society in Bahrain has prepared an important report entitled “Migrant Workers in Bahrain & the Policies of Emigration Countries.” Some important sections are highlighted below, but the entire report can be downloaded by clicking here. The report neatly...
Wedding proposal lands maid in jail
April 4th, 2007
Abusive employers Bahrain Gulf Housemaids Prison Women
A young housemaid has recently been arrested and sent to prison for asking permission to get married (a brief explanation is provided below, after the published news article.) From today’s GDN: A WEDDING proposal landed a teenage housemaid behind bars after she told her female employer she wa...
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