Ami Tursiya Takiyat, a 24 year old Indonesian housemaid in Bahrain, was stabbed to death by a Bahraini national.
There is a lot of things to say about this, but I remain quite speechless. This crime made the front page of Gulf Daily News, Bahrain’s leading English daily, and rightly so, as it …
Archive for September, 2008
Housemaid in Bahrain stabbed to death
September 23rd, 2008
Panel seeks to help domestic workers
September 15th, 2008
The Peninsula, Qatar’s leading English newspaper, recently reported the following hopeful news: Doha – The National Office for Combating Human Trafficking (NOCHT) has launched an initiative to resolve the grievances of domestic helpers and their disputes with their employers, in collabor...
Condition of foreign workers in Jordan
September 11th, 2008
Abusive employers Jordan News Slavery Working conditions
A disturbing article from IRIN News: AMMAN, 10 September 2008 (IRIN) – A lawsuit in a US court over the alleged involvement of a Jordanian company in human trafficking has forced the Jordanian government to act against the practice. The Ministry of Interior has formed committees to draft legis...
Indonesia moves to protect workers
September 5th, 2008
For many years Indonesian workers in the Gulf, specifically in Saudi Arabia, were angered at the fact that they had no form of support from their governments. Indonesian embassies often had “no comment” concerning situations having to do with abuse against Indonesian maids. Cases like th...
Workers Legally Entitled To Stay And Work Despite Court Cases
September 1st, 2008
Bahrain Gulf Legal cases Workers
Sandeep Singh Grewal Manama, Bahrain-Workers who have filed cases against their employers are legally entitled to stay and work in the country, says a local human rights group. The Bahrain Human Rights Society is now calling on all the lawyers in the country to open files of all expatriate workers w...
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