By ANIQA HAIDER , Posted on » Wednesday, August 04, 2010

ACTIVISTS have come to the aid of a battered Indian housemaid, who claims she was beaten by her employer's wife and forced to sleep outside on the terrace.

Salma Begum fled her boss's home covered in bruises yesterday, less than two months after she arrived in Bahrain.

The 32-year-old widow claims she has not been paid since she arrived on June 17.

28 July 2010

In act of the social responsibility that the Bahrain Center for Human Rights bears towards fighting human rights violations, and as a means of encouraging the activists, human rights defenders and website owners to monitor the violations of human rights and document them through photos and publish them by using the latest technologies, the BCHR had granted Mrs Rosie Tavares from the Migrant Workers Protection Society, for taking several photos that show the violations which the members of the migrant workers are facing, and especially the domestic workers. The prize is a modern style Canon Camera.

BAHRAIN (Tier 2)

Bahrain is a destination country for men and women subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and forced prostitution. Men and women from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and Eritrea migrate voluntarily to Bahrain to work as domestic workers or as unskilled laborers in the construction and service industries. Some, however, face conditions of forced labor after arriving in Bahrain

BANGLADESHI SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BAHRAIN
A 26-year-old Bangladeshi man, Russell Mezan, was sentenced to death by the High Criminal Court of Bahrain on 23 March after being convicted of murdering a Kuwaiti man. Russell Mezan’s lawyer says he has appealed against the sentence.

The BCHR in the Human Rights Council Geneva

11-03-2010
On the sidelines of the meetings of the Human Rights Council that are currently being held in Geneva, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights participated in two symposiums at the United Nations. One of them addressed the continuous violations, harassments, and smear campaigns which the defenders of human rights were facing in the world. Bahrain and the Republic of Colombia were the examples that were mentioned.

Race, Poverty, and Justice
Nabeel Rajab- Bahrain Center for Human Right & CARAM Asia
World Congress against the Death Penalty, Geneva – 24 February, 2010
Introduction

CARAM ASIA & Bahrain Center for Human rights
February- 2010

The shocking cases of suicides committed by migrant workers in Bahrain reported since the beginning of 2010 are the continuation of a trend that should have been addressed years ago. The BCHR and CARAM[1] Asia condemns the failure of authorities and Bahraini civil society to improve the working and living conditions of migrant workers, which in previous cases has been shown to lead to acts of desperation such as suicide.

Human Rights for Domestic Workers
Date: 14/12/2009 - 15:59
Women Migrant Workers
CARAM Asia a regional network of 34 NGOs and trade unions across 17 countries in Asia makes the call to governments across the globe to respect the rights and dignity of migrant workers especially domestic workers.

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/

.Bahrain: King Should Halt Execution
Nation Has Resumed Using Death Penalty After Decades Without It
December 9, 2009
Other Material: Bahrain: Migrant Workers Denied Pay, Right to Travel
Bahrain: Labor Reforms a Major Advance ."In law and practice, a growing majority of countries have rejected capital punishment, even for the most serious offenses...For a long time, Bahrain appeared to be part of this consensus, but this sentence, following the executions in 2006, calls that into question."