The Gulf Daily News carried a report today about migrant workers in Bahrain. Marietta Dias of the Migrant Workers Protection Society who was interviewed for the article said that the conditions of migrant workers in Bahrain have worsened since the economic crisis. According to Dias, “many low-…
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Bahrain: Conditions of Migrant Workers have Deteriorated since the Beginning of the Financial Crisis
October 6th, 2009
Sri Lankan Workers in Bahrain have Nowhere to Turn
October 4th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Rape Working conditions
The Sri Lankan Sunday Times published a report earlier this week about the dire situation of Sri Lankan workers in Bahrain. Delrine Embuldeniya of the Migrant Workers Protection Society who was interviewed for the article described the difficulties in handling the cases of abused Sri Lankan workers ...
Bahrain: Detergent abuse ordeal for maid
August 8th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids
This horrific yet uncommon story has been published recently on Gulf Daily News, Bahrain’s leading English daily. Please be aware that such abusive employers often go unpunished. A HOUSEMAID has taken refuge at a government shelter after her sponsor allegedly scrubbed her face with a detergent...
Bahrain Wife Reports Husband For Not Paying Maid
August 8th, 2009
This rather unusual story appeared in the Gulf Daily News last month. A Bahraini teacher and mother-of-six reported her husband to the authorities for failing to pay the family’s Sri Lankan maid for 20 months. The wife claimed that she could no longer stand the hypocrisy of spending her worki...
Human Rights Group Praises Bahrain’s Plans to Scrap Sponsorship
May 12th, 2009
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) has praised the government’s decision to abolish the sponsorship system, which binds expatriates’ right to work and reside in the Kingdom to the permission of their sponsor. The sponsorship system has long been criticized by human rights groups ...
Bangladeshi Worker Abused by Sponsor
May 12th, 2009
This story in itself is a good argument in favour of Bahrain’s decision to abolish the sponsorship system: A Bangladeshi worker was brutally beaten by his sponsor when he asked for his wages, according to this report in The Weekly Blitz (Bangladesh). Akteruzzaman Akhter, who worked as a pipe f...
Bahrain Scraps Sponsorship System
May 6th, 2009
Bahrain is to get rid of its sponsorship law which binds foreign workers to their employers as of August 1st this year. Human rights campaigners have welcomed the ruling, which will offer increased protection to migrant workers who have currently have no choice but to remain with employers that are ...
Urgent: Indian Woman Falsely Imprisoned in Bahrain
April 15th, 2009
Mrs Durga is a 33 year old Indian national currently imprisoned in Bahrain. She was working as a housemaid for a Bahraini employer, but was paid only BD20 per month instead of BD50 promised to her in her contract, after an Indian employment broker based in Bahrain claimed most of her salary as a ...
Bahraini Lawyer Dismisses Rape of Asian Migrant as ‘Fun’
March 9th, 2009
A young Filipina working in Bahrain is struggling for justice after her kidnap and rape by three local men was dismissed by a lawyer as an act of ‘fun’, according to the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR). As a recent release from BCHR to co-incide with International Women’s Da...
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