The recent surge in suicide attempts reported in this blog is not confined within Kuwait's borders across the Gulf region. Similar alarming numbers of expatriate worker suicide cases has prompted an investigation by local human rights activists on alleged migrant worker abuses in Bahrain.Over 100 expatriate workers committed suicide over the last three years; 38 cases from this year alone and large numbers considering Bahrain's small population according to local human rights advocates.
A detailed report covering issues like work safety, living conditions, non-payment of salaries and even the kinds of food that migrant workers eat is expected to be released in September by a branch of the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) and will cover all 100 work-related fatalities in detail.
BHRWS' Secretary-General Faisal Fulad revealed that few if any safety standards are often followed on Bahrain's construction sites and there is little regard for workers' lives. He added that even if an accident does occur, it is often "brushed under the rug."
This report offers migrant rights activists a venue to speak out against all of the injustices that contribute to the overall disparaged lives that expatriate workers face while living in Bahrain, providing insight into long-term health problems that workers suffer as a result of poor diet and bad nutrition, the unjustifiably low salaries they receive, and consequently, the dilapidated living conditions available to them.
Although Fulad commented that 50% of the report has already been completed, the remaining portions of the report will still take another four months. A conference will be organized by the BHRWS to coincide with the report's release in September.
Source: TradeNews Arabia News Source
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