July 28th, 2007
Abusive employers Housemaids Slavery Women Working conditions
Alarming report:
Thousands of Asian women leave their homes each year to seek better jobs abroad – usually working as domestic help. Many of them are young and inexperienced, and some are subjected to physical and mental abuse.
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July 27th, 2007
I read this story about a Nepali student returning from US and what he went through when he saw hundreds of his compatriots being badly treated at the airport…. MUST READ. By Tulsi Bhandari Last month, Nepal’s newspapers were awash with reports of hundreds of Nepali workers in Qatar being d...
July 20th, 2007
Home-bound, with heavy hearts Bonny Mascarenhas,Bahrain Tribune Sri Lankan domestic workers Grace and Mallika Geeganagegamage are heading home with memories of physical and mental abuse. Mallika left yesterday on an Air Arabia flight on a ticket she purchased on her own. The MWPS and a well-wisher ...
July 17th, 2007
Campaign to ensure implementation of break rule in Bahrain launched By Suad Hamada, Special to Gulf News Manama: A massive labour inspection campaign started yesterday to ensure implementation of the ban on construction and other outdoor work between noon and 4pm, labour official said. The Director ...
July 16th, 2007
Runaway suffers miscarriage at shelter A distressed Filipina worker at the Philippine embassy shelter shocked officials on Thursday evening when she miscarried. Fellow inmates first thought the worker, a woman in thirties, was bleeding because of some illness till they realised that she had a miscar...
July 10th, 2007
After less than one month on the job, Filipino housemaid Amelyn Albores Sayson has commit suicide by jumping from the fifth story balcony of her employer’s (read: owner’s) apartment. These stories come out of Lebanon rather frequently. Migrant Rights posted an article regarding the dism...
July 9th, 2007
Yet another maid faces an execution in the Gulf, this time in Saudi Arabia, for supposed murder. According to the BBC: The maid, Rizana Nafeek, is accused of killing a baby in her care. She had originally confessed to killing the four-month-old Saudi baby boy in 2005 but later retracted her stateme...
July 9th, 2007
Amnesty ‘to draw wide response’ ahead of reforms By Suad Hamada, Special to Gulf News Manama: The amnesty for runaway expatriate workers is expected to be more successful than the one granted in 2002 which attracted around 5,000 individuals because of the government’s new tough reg...
July 8th, 2007
Report- Bahrain Tribune Yet another Indian committed suicide yesterday evening in Riffa. The 35-year-old Indian working in a boutique in East Riffa committed suicide by hanging himself from the fan. According to information released, the Indian had been experiencing financial problems following the ...
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