X. Acknowledgements

This report was written by Priyanka Motaparthy, Leonard H. Sandler fellow for 2009-2010 in the Middle East and North Africa and Women’s Rights Divisions of Human Rights Watch. It is based on research conducted by the author; Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division; and Christoph Wilcke, senior researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division. Research was conducted in November 2009 and January 2010.

The report was edited by Nisha Varia and Christoph Wilcke, and by Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the Middle East and North Africa Division; Clive Baldwin, senior legal advisor; and Danielle Haas, consultant to the Program Office.

Adam Coogle, associate in the Middle East and North Africa division provided editing and production assistance. Anna Lopriore, Grace Choi, and Fitzroy Hepkins also provided production assistance. Shereen al-Mulla and Mariam bin Ghaith, interns in the Middle East and North Africa division, provided valuable research assistance.

Human Rights Watch would like to thank all of the individuals who agreed to be interviewed for this report, and all of the local activists and organizations who helped facilitate our research. In particular, we thank Bibi al-Sabah and the Kuwait Social Work Society; Ghanim al-Najjar of Kuwait University; Maha al-Barges, Amer al-Tamimi, and Ali al-Baghli of the Kuwait Human Rights Society; Thabet al-Haroun and Dina al-Beheri of the Kuwait country office for the International Labor Organization; Eman al-Bedah and Amani al-Bedah of Sawt al-Kuwait; and Mudhaffar al-Rashid. We also express our gratitude to those activists we met who must remain unnamed in order to continue their work assisting domestic workers in need.