Archive for August, 2007
Labourer, plumber, tailor…
August 9th, 2007
Passport copy made in 1995 comes to his rescue Bonny Mascarenhas, Bahrain Tribune Shyamlal Laxman, 48, arrived in Bahrain in 1995 hoping that he would make enough money to get his three growing daughters married and retire comfortably. Today what he has is a yellowed passport photocopy made on the d...
Scared to return home
August 9th, 2007
Bahrain Gulf Sponsorship Workers
Native land a frightening thought Noor Mohamed, Bahrain Tribune It was in 1990 when he landed in Bahrain. Even before the Gulf war. And though he dreams of his home city Mumbai he has not turned his footsteps homeward. Another victim of the free visa menace Mohammed Kunji is now 48 years and has jus...
Surviving on borrowed time
August 9th, 2007
Bahrain Gulf Sponsorship Workers
Condition grounded, but determined to fly home K. V. S. Madhav, Bahrain Tribune He dreads the very thought of darkness engulfing him forever, a ribbon of black stretched to the point of no turning back. He sits there, eyes lowered, fists clenched and numbed by the imminent danger of not being able t...
2 Indonesian Maids Beaten to Death
August 6th, 2007
Abusive employers Housemaids Saudi Arabia Slavery
The Arab News service reports yet another horrific story from Saudi Arabia this morning: JEDDAH, 6 August 2007 — Two Indonesian maids were beaten to death and two others remain in the intensive care unit at a Riyadh hospital in an assault authorities believe was committed by the son of the maids...
Al Jazeera reports – Maids in a living hell
August 1st, 2007
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids
Thousands of Asian women leave their homes each year to seek better jobs abroad as domestic workers. Many of them are treated well, but some – subjected to physical and mental abuse – endure a living hell. Most who venture abroad as domestic workers come from Indonesia and the Philippines, with...
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