The following alert from Georgetown University may be of interest to this site’s readers:
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar’s Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) announces the launching of a major research initiative designed to enhance our underst…
Archive for October, 2008
Research Grants: Migrant Labor in the Gulf
October 29th, 2008
Poor safety causes death of 3 workers in Bahrain
October 27th, 2008
Bahrain Workers Working conditions
We have written previously about the poor working conditions and lack of safety for migrant construction workers in the Gulf. It was such working conditions that unfortunately led to the death of 3 workers in Bahrain: Anil Kumar (India), Badala Raju (India), and Kamal Amin Sharif (Bangladesh). The ...
Housemaid killed for refusing to sleep with employer
October 22nd, 2008
According to Gulf Daily News, Bahrain’s leading English daily: The 21-year-old Bahraini brutally assaulted and strangled his Ethiopian housemaid when she refused to strip for him. [..] The defendant is accused of murdering the 28-year-old Ethiopian woman in his bedroom because she refused to t...
Migrant workers’ children face marginalisation, racism
October 20th, 2008
Lebanon has a bleak record of abuse against its migrant workers, with weak measures to ensure the protection of their rights. Sadly, the children of migrant workers, many of whom were born in the country yet have no legal status, have had to endure racism and marginalisation. From IRIN: Children of ...
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: ‘We need slaves to build monuments’
October 10th, 2008
The UAE has long been expanding at the expense of migrant workers and their human rights. Their economic development come at a very large price, one that not many people care to address. However Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has done exactly that in his latest article in a tear-jerking story from The Guardian: ...
Nepal bans recruitment of maids to Gulf
October 2nd, 2008
This article originally appeared on Gulf Times: NEPAL doesn’t permit its women to take up employment as housemaids in the GCC states, a top Nepalese embassy official said yesterday. Giving this information to Gulf Times, the embassy spokesman said it had come to the mission’s notice of late that...
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