Bahrain 
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Facts and Figures
Overview IOM Migration ActivitiesBahrain, together with other Gulf Countries, has a history of intra-regional overseas contract workers. These dynamics between the labour-sending and the GCC labour-receiving states continue to yield important economic benefits for involved parts including, of course, overseas contract workers. According to Bahraini government estimates, overseas workers comprise 63 per cent of the country’s work force. The promise of economic and social prosperity and employment in Bahrain is often used as a lure by traffickers to bring in workers from India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. These workers find themselves in situations of abuse and exploitation. The government of Bahrain is aware of the complexity of the problem and it is deploying intense efforts to tackle it at different levels, including the launching of a National Plan of Action since 2002 to counter trafficking and prevent abuse of overseas workers, as well as the recent opening of a “Safe House” or shelter for abused overseas workers and victims of trafficking. Regulating Migration IOM’s programmatic response aims to assist the country by increasing the government's capacity to further develop instruments to protect overseas contract workers, and to fight and prevent trafficking. Within this context IOM's assistance will focus on enhancing existing capacities of the government and partners of the civil society in terms of shelter management for the protection of abused workers and victims of trafficking, information campaigns, as well as training the staff of national institutions involved in overseas contract workers’ protection, counseling and assistance. A counter-trafficking capacity building intervention to complement current efforts of the Bahraini government in curbing trafficking in persons has been funded by the government of the United States of America; the project will be implemented by IOM in close coordination with the Ministry of Social Development. Main Projects
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IOM Bahrain
There is no IOM office in Bahrain. For more information, please contact IOM Cairo.
| Tel: | +20.2 735 08 79 |
| +20.2 735 70 53 | |
| +20.2 736 08 48 | |
| Fax: | +20.2 736 37 57 |
Related Links
- Bahrain Government
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs
- Bahrain Center for Human Rights
Partners
- Economic Development Board
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Labour
- Ministry of Social Development
