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Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Human Rights Watch says laws in Mideast and Asia do not protect against abuse.
read more »Tuesday, 4 November 2008
US-based rights group says country executed 19-year-old on Oct. 30 - seventh this year.
read more »Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Human Rights Watch group calls for action to relax restrictions on award-winning solicitor.
read more »Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Foreign maids in Lebanon committing suicide to escape bad treatment.
read more »Sunday, 20 July 2008
Human Rights Watch urges residential contender to make human rights a priority.
read more »Saturday, 19 July 2008
Construction minimum wage is a heated issue across the Gulf, with little response from some governments.
read more »Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Authorities accused of beating, electrocuting and even sexually assaulting detainees during interrogation.
read more »Monday, 14 July 2008
Kingdom moves to stop abuse of migrant workers following criticism.
read more »Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Human rights campaigners claim some Saudi's abusing female migrant workers to point of slavery.
read more »Friday, 20 June 2008
The US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has hit out at Saudi Arabia's Nukhba House of Medical Services over a pay dispute which has left 55 Asian health workers stranded in the Kingdom.
read more »Thursday, 22 May 2008
Human Rights Watch slams 'outrageous, dangerous' court ruling in Indonesian maid abuse case.
read more »Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Rights group says secret police arrest university professor for prison criticism.
read more »Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Rights group calls on gov't to dismiss verdict against barber for 'cursing name of God'.
read more »Monday, 21 April 2008
Kingdom's mail guardianship and segregation policies 'grossly discriminatory', HRW says.
read more »Saturday, 29 March 2008
Rights group calls on Arab League to exert influence over country's gov't.
read more »Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Human Rights Watch calls on kingdom to protect children from abuses during interrogation and trial.
read more »Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Misguided prosecutions reveal official ignorance and prejudice about HIV, says Human Rights Watch.
read more »Saturday, 1 March 2008
Saddam Hussein's cousin to be executed for ordering gas attacks on Kurds in 1980s, officials say.
read more »Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Charter will seriously impede right of people in Arab world, US-based group says.
read more »Sunday, 24 February 2008
Dubai sends out warning to workers about demonstrating over pay and conditions.
read more »Saturday, 23 February 2008
Around 2,500 Bahrainis take to streets over detention and alleged abuse of rights and political activists.
read more »Sunday, 17 February 2008
Gov't should investigate complaints from opposition activists, says rights group.
read more »Wednesday, 6 February 2008
HIV positive men arrested, beaten and chained to beds before unfair trials, watchdog says.
read more »Saturday, 2 February 2008
The UAE minister of labour, HE Dr Ali Abdulla Al Kaabi has defended the country's efforts to improve workers' rights saying that even though problems exist, it is doing everything in its power to solve them immediately.
read more »Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Kingdom will submit report to UN after recent battles between protesters and police.
read more »Thursday, 24 January 2008
COLOMBO PROCESS: Rights advocate group stands by report on worker abuse despite heavy UAE criticism.
read more »Wednesday, 23 January 2008
COLOMBO PROCESS: UAE hits back at group for criticism of domestic worker treatment.
read more »Monday, 21 January 2008
Human Rights Watch and other groups urge reforms to protect workers from abuse.
read more »Monday, 21 January 2008
Human Rights Watch warns abuse remains 'rampant', calls for minimum standards.
read more »Saturday, 29 December 2007
Do a Google search for ‘construction workers in Dubai' and the first website that comes up is one that contains a Human Rights Watch investigation into the conditions faced by labourers in the emirate.
read more »Sunday, 7 October 2007
Human Rights Watch calls on gov't to release activists detained for criticising torture.
read more »Sunday, 16 September 2007
Rights groups condemn imprisonment of four editors for criticising Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
read more »Friday, 27 July 2007
Human Rights Watch calls on Guggenheim to enforce labour rights during construction of Abu Dhabi branch.
read more »Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Human rights groups say that Bahrain's PM has not solved local housing woes.
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