January 29th, 2008
Laudable statement from The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights:
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns recent comments made by the Labour Minister (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/gulfimmigrationlabour), in which he warns that Gulf countries face danger of an “Asian tsunami” bec…
January 25th, 2008
From Lankan Business online: DUBAI, Jan 24, 2008 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan maid, in transit on her way home from Kuwait to see her children for the first time in three years, hanged herself in a toilet at Dubai airport, an Emirati daily said on Thursday. The report came just two days after the oil-...
January 13th, 2008
Housemaids Legal cases Saudi Arabia
Via the BBC: An Indonesian housemaid has been executed in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of killing her employer, the Saudi interior ministry has said. The woman was beheaded in the southern Asir province, in what was the second execution in the country in 2008. The maid was earlier found guilty...
January 10th, 2008
Bahrain Workers Working conditions
And some of you can help by donating clothes. I’m attaching two clippings of our local paper which has the contact information of the founder and a volunteer for an organization which distributes clothes to low-paid workers in need of help and support. Click the images for larger viewing.
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