According to Gulf Daily News, Bahrain’s leading English daily:
The 21-year-old Bahraini brutally assaulted and strangled his Ethiopian housemaid when she refused to strip for him.
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The defendant is accused of murdering the 28-year-old Ethiopian woman in his bedroom because she refused to t…
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Housemaid killed for refusing to sleep with employer
October 22nd, 2008
Housemaid in Bahrain stabbed to death
September 23rd, 2008
Ami Tursiya Takiyat, a 24 year old Indonesian housemaid in Bahrain, was stabbed to death by a Bahraini national. There is a lot of things to say about this, but I remain quite speechless. This crime made the front page of Gulf Daily News, Bahrain’s leading English daily, and rightly so, as it ...
Workers Legally Entitled To Stay And Work Despite Court Cases
September 1st, 2008
Bahrain Gulf Legal cases Workers
Sandeep Singh Grewal Manama, Bahrain-Workers who have filed cases against their employers are legally entitled to stay and work in the country, says a local human rights group. The Bahrain Human Rights Society is now calling on all the lawyers in the country to open files of all expatriate workers w...
Two years on, blaze victims await justice.
August 7th, 2008
Abusive employers Bahrain Legal cases Working conditions
In July 2006, a blaze at a labour camp in Gudaibiya left 16 Indian workers dead. The workers were made to live in a squalid, overcrowded camp, with outrageously poor facilities. Not only were appropriate safety measures ignored, but the windows were sealed shut, limiting the workers’ means of ...
Maids Not Aware Of Their Rights And Contract In Bahrain
July 13th, 2008
Sandeep Singh Grewal – AHN Middle East Correspondent Manama, Bahrain (AHN) – Being a maid here equals money troubles and misery. That sums up what many domestic workers go through after they leave their countries to earn a better living for their families, according to a union official. ...
Visa ban for Bangladeshis
May 27th, 2008
Unfortunately, due to recent events in Bahrain, many people seem to agree with the decision to ban visas for incoming Bangladeshis. However, this action is only due to an exaggerated stereotype, a claim that Bangladeshi civilians must be “murderous” due to several Bangladeshi workers who...
1,300 migrant workers strike in Bahrain over pay
February 12th, 2008
Bahrain Gulf Slavery UAE Working conditions
From the AFP: MANAMA (AFP) — Around 1,300 migrant workers helping to build a luxury coastal development in Bahrain have gone on strike to demand higher wages, a company official said on Sunday. The workers are employed by the contracting firm GP Zachariades to work on the Durrat al-Bahrain develo...
An endearing, hopeful article for a change
February 8th, 2008
For the past 28 years, Mrs Bala, now in her 70s, has been helping Bahrain’s migrant labourers, most of whom come from the Indian subcontinent, in any way she can. A practising lawyer, she has helped solve scores of labour disputes, talked dozens out of suicide, clothed and fed hundreds of wor...
Labour Minister using migrant workers as scapegoat for government’s economic failures
January 29th, 2008
Laudable statement from The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights: The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns recent comments made by the Labour Minister (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/gulfimmigrationlabour), in which he warns that Gulf countries face danger of an “Asian tsunami” bec...
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