Bahrain Tribune - 26 June 2003

Women’s groups, non-governmental organisations and human rights bodies should be more involved in monitoring working conditions and living standards of domestic workers, especially housemaids, said vice-president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab.

In a stinging speech at a Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs forum to discuss the plight of domestic workers, Rajab commented that housemaids who come to Bahrain were usually from the lowest socio-economic level in their countries and were not only exploited through overwork but sometimes sexually assaulted and culturally discriminated against.