Bahrain’s Labour Ministry’s most recent figures show that the number of deaths in work sites in the kingdom has significantly increased in 2009. Thus far, 35 people have lost their lives on construction sites this year, compared to 36 people in all of 2008, 29 in 2007, 21 in 2006 and 18 …
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Bahraini Man Claims that he “Accidentaly” Killed his Maid When Dumping Her Body
October 6th, 2009
Abusive employers Bahrain Housemaids Legal cases
A Bahraini man charged with killing his Indonesian housemaid denies premeditated murder in his trial, the Gulf Daily News reported today. According to the persecution, last September the man tried to strangle the maid, and when he didn’t succeed in killing her with his bare hands, he slit her ...
Bahrain: Conditions of Migrant Workers have Deteriorated since the Beginning of the Financial Crisis
October 6th, 2009
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-...
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 ...
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