And some of you can help by donating clothes. I’m attaching two clippings of our local paper which has the contact information of the founder and a volunteer for an organization which distributes clothes to low-paid workers in need of help and support.
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Archive for the ‘Bahrain’ Category
Labour workers suffering in cold weather
January 10th, 2008
Bahrain Workers Working conditions
Bahrain rights group highlight migrant worker situation
December 14th, 2007
An excerpt from a recent article published on the Bahrain Center for Human Rights: The BCHR feels, however, that special attention must be given to the plight of female migrant domestic workers, as they have been by and large ignored and excluded from the discourse on women’s rights in Bahrain...
Enhancing social protection of Bangladeshi migrants
November 18th, 2007
Reported by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights: Section 1: The Situation There are approximately 74,000 Bangladeshi workers in Bahrain, including up to 4,000 women. These workers represent 10 per cent of the total population of residents in Bahrain. Within the region, Bangladeshi workers are mainl...
Bangla workers most vulnerable
November 17th, 2007
First published in Bahrain Tribune, by Titus Filio: Bangladeshi migrant workers remain to be among the most vulnerable foreign workforce groups in Bahrain, according to human rights activists who discussed their plight at a workshop in Dhaka this week. Low salaries, working without documents, lack o...
Labourer, plumber, tailor…
August 9th, 2007
Passport copy made in 1995 comes to his rescue Bonny Mascarenhas, Bahrain Tribune Shyamlal Laxman, 48, arrived in Bahrain in 1995 hoping that he would make enough money to get his three growing daughters married and retire comfortably. Today what he has is a yellowed passport photocopy made on the d...
Scared to return home
August 9th, 2007
Bahrain Gulf Sponsorship Workers
Native land a frightening thought Noor Mohamed, Bahrain Tribune It was in 1990 when he landed in Bahrain. Even before the Gulf war. And though he dreams of his home city Mumbai he has not turned his footsteps homeward. Another victim of the free visa menace Mohammed Kunji is now 48 years and has jus...
Surviving on borrowed time
August 9th, 2007
Bahrain Gulf Sponsorship Workers
Condition grounded, but determined to fly home K. V. S. Madhav, Bahrain Tribune He dreads the very thought of darkness engulfing him forever, a ribbon of black stretched to the point of no turning back. He sits there, eyes lowered, fists clenched and numbed by the imminent danger of not being able t...
Nepalis nightmare in the Gulf
July 27th, 2007
I read this story about a Nepali student returning from US and what he went through when he saw hundreds of his compatriots being badly treated at the airport…. MUST READ. By Tulsi Bhandari Last month, Nepal’s newspapers were awash with reports of hundreds of Nepali workers in Qatar being d...
Memory remains
July 20th, 2007
Home-bound, with heavy hearts Bonny Mascarenhas,Bahrain Tribune Sri Lankan domestic workers Grace and Mallika Geeganagegamage are heading home with memories of physical and mental abuse. Mallika left yesterday on an Air Arabia flight on a ticket she purchased on her own. The MWPS and a well-wisher ...
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