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 take off her clothes on February 29.
He allegedly locked the maid inside his room [...]
The UAE has long been expanding at the expense of migrant workers and their human rights. Their economic development come at a very large price, one that not many people care to address. However Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has done exactly that in his latest article in a tear-jerking story from The Guardian:
Picture and article by Ghaith [...]
This article originally appeared on Gulf Times:
NEPAL doesn’t permit its women to take up employment as housemaids in the GCC states, a top Nepalese embassy official said yesterday.
Giving this information to Gulf Times, the embassy spokesman said it had come to the mission’s notice of late that women from the Himalayan country were being brought [...]
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 deserves all the [...]
The Peninsula, Qatar’s leading English newspaper, recently reported the following hopeful news:
Doha - The National Office for Combating Human Trafficking (NOCHT) has launched an initiative to resolve the grievances of domestic helpers and their disputes with their employers, in collaboration with the embassies of the countries from where the workers are hired.
Mariam Al Malki, NOCHT [...]
For many years Indonesian workers in the Gulf, specifically in Saudi Arabia, were angered at the fact that they had no form of support from their governments. Indonesian embassies often had “no comment” concerning situations having to do with abuse against Indonesian maids. Cases like these were never visibly condemned and no one sought real [...]
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 whose employers have filed cases against them [...]
In Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Gulf, there are no formal shelters for abused maids. If a housemaid runs away, more often than not, it is because of her discomfort in a certain house or because of mistreatment, but there is nowhere that she can go. Police or the agency that she came through will [...]
About two weeks ago, we reported this news on the Sri Lankan government decreasing the number of domestic maids being sent into Saudi Arabia, due to an increasingly large record of abuse.
Arab News has picked up the story, reporting the following:
Kingsley Ranawaka, chairman of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE), was recently quoted [...]
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 escape.
Angered, the 200 surviving workers took [...]