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World Report Chapter: Bahrain

Events of 2009

Human Rights for Migrant Domestic Workers

Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 8:23 pm | 187 views

CARAM Asia

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Dec 2009: As the world marks International Human Rights Day today, CARAM Asia launches an online petition campaign seeking crucial support and commitment from every employer of households to grant a weekly paid day off to their migrant domestic worker (MDW). From today onwards, the online campaign will be featured for 30 days on the major media online sites based in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, and the Middle East:

1. http://www.malaysiakini.com/

In Bahrain, the systematic discrimination against the Shiite majority was accompanied by more repression of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Human rights defenders increasingly became targets for arrest, trial, and smear campaigns. Some human rights defenders were even subjected by government agents to threats and intimidation while in Europe.

2009 Report on Human Rights in the Arab World: Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform | 08/12/2009

"Embrace diversity, end discrimination"

Corruption Perceptions Index 2009

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) table shows a country's ranking and score, the number of surveys used to determine the score, and the confidence range of the scoring.
The rank shows how one country compares to others included in the index. The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public-sector corruption in a country/territory.

Bahrain

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
International Religious Freedom Report 2009
October 26, 2009

Bahrain court acquits 19 of policeman’s murder
Tuesday13/10/2009October, 2009, 11:58 PM Doha Time

BAHRAIN (Tier 2 Watch List)
Bahrain is a destination country for men and women
trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial
sexual exploitation. Men and women from India,
Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia,
Thailand, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and Eritrea migrate
voluntarily to Bahrain to work as formal sector laborers
or domestic workers. Some, however, face conditions
of involuntary servitude after arriving in Bahrain, such
as unlawful withholding of passports, restrictions on

Feb 2009
Bahrain's fraught sectarian divide
Bahrain flag
As Bahrain prepares for the trial of alleged militant plotters, ISN Security Watch's Dominic Moran speaks to government opponents concerning recent unrest and sectarian relations.

By Dominic Moran in Tel Aviv for ISN Security Watch

Sectarian violence has again flared in Bahrain following a wave of arrests associated with an alleged plot to attack national day celebrations.

In an International Study to evaluate the performance of the State members in the UN’s Human Rights Council:

Bahrain adopts a wholesale of negative positions towards the promotion of human rights at the international level

Bahrain displayed negative results in its positions in human rights issues at the international level. Bahrain, as a member State in the UN’s Human Rights Council, took an opposing position towards 9 of 11 key issues regarding the promotion of human rights at the international level. While it declined taking a positive position in the remaining two issues.

By RASHA AL QAHTANI
Published: 19th AUGUST 2008

BAHRAIN human rights activists have joined forces with their counterparts in the region to demand that Palestinian students trapped in Gaza be allowed to leave to resume their studies abroad.

Twenty-three rights groups, mostly from Egypt, have signed a petition calling on the Egyptian government to take measures that will facilitate the process.

They want the students to have immediate permission to pass through the Rafah boarder crossing to resume their studies in the universities they have enrolled in other countries.