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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Working conditions’ Category
Transporting Workers
April 20th, 2007 | Abusive employers, Bahrain, Gulf, News, Workers, Working conditions | Discuss (0)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 [...]
Migrant Workers in Bahrain and the problems they face
April 6th, 2007 | Abusive employers, Bahrain, Gulf, Slavery, Sponsorship | Discuss (0)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 [...]
The sad plight of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
March 29th, 2007 | Abusive employers, Housemaids, Lebanon, Racism, Slavery, Sponsorship, Women, Workers, Working conditions | Discuss (5)by Yaman Salahi
Sushar Rosky, born 1987, hangs from the balcony of the apartment in which she worked as a maid for only 20 days in Sidon, Lebanon. She hung herself with bits of clothe carefully tied together in 2005. No investigation was conducted into the circumstances leading up to her death.
Almost ten years ago, Lina [...]
Another Horrorific, Yet Avoidable Accident
March 29th, 2007 | Abusive employers, Bahrain, News, Sponsorship, Workers, Working conditions | Discuss (1)Manama, Bahrain
FIVE Asian labourers were injured, two of them seriously, when the open truck they were travelling in to work overturned early yesterday.
The incident happened when the driver tried to avoid a Saudi-registered car, which allegedly changed lanes at high speed in the Seef District at around 6.15am, traffic sources told the GDN.
They said the [...]
Maid Murdered - Sponsorship or Slavery?
March 22nd, 2007 | Abusive employers, Gulf, News, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Sponsorship | Discuss (0)Somewhere in Jizan, located in the southern region of Saudi Arabia, a maid died in a hospital after being brought there by her sponsor, whose wife had assaulted her.
One thing pops into my mind: slavery.
Not generalizing, I would have to say that a great percentage of Saudis think it’s their God-given right to treat others [...]