“I still cannot believe that I am out of this ordeal that I have undergone for the past 10 years,” said Anista Marie, 40, who since 1999 hasn’t received her salary. Marie called up Arab News a little over 3 weeks ago saying she has been imprisoned and abused in the home of her sponsor [...]
The Arab News service reports yet another horrific story from Saudi Arabia this morning:
JEDDAH, 6 August 2007 — Two Indonesian maids were beaten to death and two others remain in the intensive care unit at a Riyadh hospital in an assault authorities believe was committed by the son of the maids’ employer. The 17-year-old suspect [...]
Alarming report:
Thousands of Asian women leave their homes each year to seek better jobs abroad - usually working as domestic help. Many of them are young and inexperienced, and some are subjected to physical and mental abuse.
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Gulf Daily News reports that migrant workers might get an opportunity to escape the heat of the midday sun during Bahrain’s hottest two months, as The Cabinet urges a ban on outdoor work from 12-4pm during July and August.
The Cabinet yesterday moved to protect workers from Bahrain’s scorching summer heat. The Premier has urged a [...]
He greeted me every morning as I opened the backdoor and entered the office. Some time back when I first joined I had asked for a cup of coffee, with cream and no sugar. Ever since, every day at the same time he would come with my morning coffee. He received my “Thank you” with [...]
I conducted several interviews with housemaids, a farmer, and a public bus driver in Bahrain. The language barrier made this very hard. I had to mix several languages. Originally I wanted this to be a podcast, but interruptions happened frequently, and also I had to repeat or re-phrase some questions since not all of them [...]
A horrifying article in this week’s International Herald Tribune:
As waves of Iraqis flee their conflicted country, other desperate civilians are going in.
Migrant workers from some of the world’s poorest countries are being lured by the prospect of inflated salaries in construction or security companies. Some enter despite explicit bans in their own governments; others think [...]
Manama, Bahrain
A few weeks back, we wrote about a serious accident which put several foreign workers in hospital beds. It seems that some months prior to this incident, the Bahraini government proposed that workers be transported to and from work in covered vehicles. A normal person would interpret that as, “workers should be transported in [...]
The Migrant Workers Protection Society in Bahrain has prepared an important report entitled “Migrant Workers in Bahrain & the Policies of Emigration Countries.” Some important sections are highlighted below, but the entire report can be downloaded by clicking here.
The report neatly outlines the following as some of the biggest difficulties faced by these workers in [...]