We’ve previously reported about the case of Lakshmi Surampudi, an Indian woman who had worked as a maid in Bahrain. She was abused for years and found malnourished and almost blind after fleeing her sponsor. She was forced to sleep on a towel on the floor, and was “regularly hit, kicked, st…
Archive for the ‘Bahrain’ Category
Abused Maid Returns from Bahrain; No Charges Brought Against Sponsor Yet (UPDATED)
December 12th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids
Bahrain to Transfer Thousands of Migrant Workers to Segregated Areas
November 16th, 2009
The first phase of construction of Bahrain’s first “labor city” has been nearly completed, and the government will begin relocating workers there in January 2010, Khaleej Times reported today. The city, located in the confines of the Al Hidd industrial area will be able to accommod...
Three months after the Sponsorship system in Bahrain was “scrapped”, what really changed?
November 11th, 2009
Bahrain Legislation Sponsorship
It seems that the pronouncements about “abolishing” the sponsorship (kafala) system in Bahrain were premature. At best, the changing of Bahrain’s labor laws can be described as a easing of the rules. The changes to Bahrain’s Labour Market Regulatory Law, which were made in Ap...
Human Rights Watch Criticizes Bahrain’s Government for not Protecting Abused Workers
November 4th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Legal cases Sponsorship
Human Rights Watch criticized the Bahraini Labor Ministry today for not enforcing Bahraini law against employers who withhold wages and passports from their migrant workers. Instead of helping the workers to recover their wages, the government directs the migrant workers into an arbitration process ...
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...
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...
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...
Loading... 