The New Nation, a Bangladeshi papers, recently published a story about the conditions of Nepalese housemaids in the Gulf. The article features the stories of two women who worked in Saudi Arabia as maids. Because of reports of inhuman treatment …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Prison, Rape, Saudi Arabia, Slavery | 6 CommentsThe 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 …
Posted in Abusive employers, Bahrain, Rape, Working conditions | 2 CommentsFemale migrant workers are increasingly vulnerable to contracting the HIV virus, according to a recent report by the UNDP, ‘HIV Vulnerabilities of Migrant Women: From Asia to the Arab States‘ Not only are many migrant women working as domestic maids …
Posted in Housemaids, Rape, Women | Leave a commentA 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 …
Posted in Bahrain, Legal cases, Rape | 5 CommentsThe following article is reported by Agence France Presse (AFP) and has been republished in The Daily Star – A couple who tried to treat a Filipino maid like an inmate of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison have been jailed in …
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