Rothna Begum

Former Associate Director, Women's Rights Division

Articles Authored

October 16, 2015 Commentary

Gulf States Fail to Protect Domestic Workers From Serious Violence
June 16, 2015 Commentary

Ramadan Reflections Hit Close to Home
April 27, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Helping Nepalis Abroad Aid Their Families at Home
April 26, 2015 Commentary

The Best Way to Counter ISIS’s Cruelty
April 15, 2015 Commentary

Interview: These Yezidi Girls Escaped ISIS. Now What?
March 25, 2015 Commentary

Challenging Iran's women's rights narrative
March 8, 2015 Commentary

Time to Take Action for Women in the United Arab Emirates
January 26, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Egypt’s Historic Conviction for FGM
December 18, 2014 Commentary

End Exploitation for Domestic Workers in the Gulf
November 25, 2014 Dispatches

Dispatches: The Ugly Truth Behind the UAE’s Gleam

Reports Authored

July 18, 2023

Trapped

How Male Guardianship Policies Restrict Women’s Travel and Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa
March 29, 2021

“Everything I Have to Do is Tied to a Man”

Women and Qatar’s Male Guardianship Rules
November 14, 2017

“Working Like a Robot”

Abuse of Tanzanian Domestic Workers in Oman and the United Arab Emirates
July 13, 2016

“I Was Sold”

Abuse and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers in Oman
October 22, 2014

"I Already Bought You"

Abuse and Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates