First published in Bahrain Tribune, by Titus Filio:
Bangladeshi migrant workers remain to be among the most vulnerable foreign workforce groups in Bahrain, according to human rights activists who discussed their plight at a workshop in Dhaka this week.
Low salaries, working without documents, lack of proper accommodation and no access to health facilities are among the [...]
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Passport copy made in 1995 comes to his rescue
Bonny Mascarenhas, Bahrain Tribune
Shyamlal Laxman, 48, arrived in Bahrain in 1995 hoping that he would make enough money to get his three growing daughters married and retire comfortably.
Today what he has is a yellowed passport photocopy made on the day he arrived.
“A friend of a friend in [...]
Native land a frightening thought
Noor Mohamed, Bahrain Tribune
It was in 1990 when he landed in Bahrain.
Even before the Gulf war.
And though he dreams of his home city Mumbai he has not turned his footsteps homeward.
Another victim of the free visa menace Mohammed Kunji is now 48 years and has just heard about the amnesty.
Plans to [...]
Condition grounded, but determined to fly home
K. V. S. Madhav, Bahrain Tribune
He dreads the very thought of darkness engulfing him forever, a ribbon of black stretched to the point of no turning back. He sits there, eyes lowered, fists clenched and numbed by the imminent danger of not being able to see his wife and [...]
I read this story about a Nepali student returning from US and what he went through when he saw hundreds of his compatriots being badly treated at the airport…. MUST READ.
By Tulsi Bhandari
Last month, Nepal’s newspapers were awash with reports of hundreds of Nepali workers in Qatar being driven from the country for demanding [...]
Home-bound, with heavy hearts
Bonny Mascarenhas,Bahrain Tribune
Sri Lankan domestic workers Grace and Mallika Geeganagegamage are heading home with memories of physical and mental abuse.
Mallika left yesterday on an Air Arabia flight on a ticket she purchased on her own. The MWPS and a well-wisher gave her some money for expenses during travel.
Grace will be leaving for [...]
Campaign to ensure implementation of break rule in Bahrain launched
By Suad Hamada, Special to Gulf News
Manama: A massive labour inspection campaign started yesterday to ensure implementation of the ban on construction and other outdoor work between noon and 4pm, labour official said.
The Director of Public and International Relations at the Ministry of Labour Subah Al [...]
Runaway suffers miscarriage at shelter
A distressed Filipina worker at the Philippine embassy shelter shocked officials on Thursday evening when she miscarried.
Fellow inmates first thought the worker, a woman in thirties, was bleeding because of some illness till they realised that she had a miscarriage. A doctor and paramedics were called to help the woman. The [...]
Amnesty ‘to draw wide response’ ahead of reforms
By Suad Hamada, Special to Gulf News
Manama: The amnesty for runaway expatriate workers is expected to be more successful than the one granted in 2002 which attracted around 5,000 individuals because of the government’s new tough regulations, activists said yesterday.
The number of runaway and free-visa workers is estimated [...]
Report- Bahrain Tribune
Yet another Indian committed suicide yesterday evening in Riffa. The 35-year-old Indian working in a boutique in East Riffa committed suicide by hanging himself from the fan.
According to information released, the Indian had been experiencing financial problems following the expansion of his shop. The business he expected to come in was not forthcoming. [...]