From the AFP:
MANAMA (AFP) — Around 1,300 migrant workers helping to build a luxury coastal development in Bahrain have gone on strike to demand higher wages, a company official said on Sunday.
The workers are employed by the contracting firm GP Zachariades to work on the Durrat al-Bahrain develo…
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1,300 migrant workers strike in Bahrain over pay
February 12th, 2008
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An endearing, hopeful article for a change
February 8th, 2008
For the past 28 years, Mrs Bala, now in her 70s, has been helping Bahrain’s migrant labourers, most of whom come from the Indian subcontinent, in any way she can. A practising lawyer, she has helped solve scores of labour disputes, talked dozens out of suicide, clothed and fed hundreds of wor...
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