Gulf News reports that a Bangladeshi laundryman plead guilty yesterday in a Dubai court to helping his friend, A.N., sell a 24-year-old Bangladeshi housemaid to a pimp. A.N. is also facing charges for attempted human trafficking, but was not present at the court. The maid was carrying A.N.’s b…
Archive for October, 2009
UAE: Two Men Conspire to Sell a Pregnant Maid into Prostitution
October 27th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases News Trafficking UAE
Bahraini man who murdered a maid receives a life sentence
October 26th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids Legal cases News
A Bahraini court handed a life sentence to a man who murdered his maid, Gulf News reported today. As we’ve previously wrote, the man was spotted dumping the body of Ami Tursiya Takiyat (29), an Indonesian maid who worked for him. We welcome this severe sentence that shows that the lives of mig...
UAE: Two Bangladeshi Men Charged with Kidnapping and Raping Filipino Maids
October 26th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases Rape Trafficking UAE
Two Bangladeshi men went on trial in Dubai yesterday for kidnapping two Filipino maids, gang-raping one of them and trying to force them into prostitution, Khaleej Times reported today. The housemaids were walking around Abu Dhabi when three Bangladeshi men pulled up next to them in a car and forced...
Bahrain: 38 Indian Workers Protest Against Unpaid Wages
October 25th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Sponsorship
Gulf Daily News reported today that a group of 38 Indian men working for a Manama-based construction company held a demonstration yesterday in front of the Indian embassy in the capital. The protesters said that that their monthly salaries, ranging from 80-90 Bahraini dinars ($210-240), haven’...
Bahrain: Police is yet to charge the abusive employers of an Indian maid
October 24th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids Legal cases Sponsorship
The Bahraini-based Migrant Workers Protection Society (MWPS), has recently highlighted the case of Lakshmi Surampudi, an Indian woman who came to work as a maid in Bahrain in 2005. Three months ago, after nearly four years of abuse, Surampudi fled her sponsor and was found extremely malnourished and...
Op-ed in the Gulf Daily News: Lock up rogue sponsors – not their victims!
October 24th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Documentation Sponsorship
The following great op-ed piece appeared in the Gulf Daily News on October 23, 2009: Lock up rogue sponsors – not their victims! By Les Horton Yet again we see a report in the GDN of two allegedly abused workers trapped in Bahrain because their sponsors refuse to hand over their passports. The...
Lebanon: Ethiopian Maid Commits Suicide
October 23rd, 2009
Housemaids Lebanon News Suicide
Al-Akhbar reported today that an Ethiopian maid, Matene Kebede Zeditu (born 1983), was found hanging from an olive tree in Haris, southern Lebanon. An investigation has taken place, but it is yet to arrive to any conclusions. Fingerprints and photographs were taken at the scene of the suicide. The i...
Bahrain: Police not Doing Enough to Protect Migrant Workers from Abusive Employers
October 22nd, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids
Employers in Bahrain can hold their foreign workers captive by not returning their passport and allowing them to go home, said the Migrant Workers Protection Society (MWPS). According to the NGO, when the migrant workers flee their employers, the police doesn’t assist them in getting back thei...
A View from Nepal: People on the Move
October 22nd, 2009
Nepal is rapidly establishing itself as a major sender of migrant labour to the Middle East. Every year, tens of thousands of Nepali citizens travel to countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia to work as maids, construction workers or for other manual labour. Around 2.6 million Nepalis work overseas...
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