He greeted me every morning as I opened the backdoor and entered the office. Some time back when I first joined I had asked for a cup of coffee, with cream and no sugar. Ever since, every day at the …
Posted in Bahrain, Slavery, Workers | Leave a commentI conducted several interviews with housemaids, a farmer, and a public bus driver in Bahrain. The language barrier made this very hard. I had to mix several languages. Originally I wanted this to be a podcast, but interruptions happened frequently, …
Posted in Bahrain, Housemaids, Women, Working conditions | 10 CommentsGulf Daily News reports about a suicide attempt by 2 men, one Sri Lankan and the other Indian, who have spent approximately 2 years in Bahrain’s deportation centre. Excerpt of the article: Around 10 hours before the apparent attempted suicides, …
Posted in Bahrain, Prisoners | Leave a commentThe Bahrain Centre for Human Rights has expressed its alarm at new efforts in the Bahraini parliament to impose segregation on migrant workers by mandating, by law, that unmarried migrant workers be barred from living in residential areas, meaning that …
Posted in Bahrain, Workers | 2 CommentsManama, Bahrain A few weeks back, we wrote about a serious accident which put several foreign workers in hospital beds. It seems that some months prior to this incident, the Bahraini government proposed that workers be transported to and from …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, Gulf, News, Workers, Working conditions | Leave a commentThe Migrant Workers Protection Society in Bahrain has prepared an important report entitled “Migrant Workers in Bahrain & the Policies of Emigration Countries.” Some important sections are highlighted below, but the entire report can be downloaded by clicking here. The …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, Gulf, Slavery, Sponsorship | 1 CommentA young housemaid has recently been arrested and sent to prison for asking permission to get married (a brief explanation is provided below, after the published news article.) From today’s GDN: A WEDDING proposal landed a teenage housemaid behind bars …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, Gulf, Housemaids, Prison, Women | 2 CommentsManama, Bahrain FIVE Asian labourers were injured, two of them seriously, when the open truck they were travelling in to work overturned early yesterday. The incident happened when the driver tried to avoid a Saudi-registered car, which allegedly changed lanes …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, News, Sponsorship, Workers, Working conditions | 1 CommentHabib Toumi of Gulf News reports: Manama: A Bahrain rights watchdog has reiterated its call to include migrant women in the country’s labour law, saying the move would ensure their protection against abuses. “The government should take immediate steps to …
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