Racial segregation

===Bahrain===
{{See also|Human rights in Bahrain|Bandargate scandal}}
On 28 April 2007, the [[Council of Representatives of Bahrain|lower house]] of [[National Assembly of Bahrain|Bahraini Parliament]] passed a law banning unmarried migrant workers from living in residential areas. To justify the law, Nasser Fadhala, [[Member of Parliament|MP]], a close ally of the government, said "bachelors also use these houses to make alcohol, run prostitute rings or to rape children and housemaids".<ref name="migrantworkers3" />

Sadiq Rahma, technical committee head, who is a member of [[Al Wefaq]], said: "The rules we are drawing up are designed to protect the rights of both the families and the Asian bachelors (..) these labourers often have habits which are difficult for families living nearby to tolerate (..) they come out of their homes half dressed, brew alcohol illegally in their homes, use prostitutes and make the neighbourhood dirty (..) these are poor people who often live in groups of 50 or more, crammed into one house or apartment," said Mr Rahma. "The rules also state that there must be at least one bathroom for every five people (..) there have also been cases in which young children have been sexually molested."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tariq Kkonji |date=23 January 2006 |title='No go' rule for bachelor labourers |work=[[Gulf Daily News]] |url=http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=133367 |access-date=2 January 2012 |archive-date=19 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119090039/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=133367 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Bahrain Centre for Human Rights]] issued a press release condemning this decision as discriminatory and promoting negative racist attitudes towards migrant workers.<ref name="migrantworkers3">{{Cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=28 April 2007 |title=Parliament's law to ban migrant workers who are unmarried from living in residential areas is discriminatory attitudes |publisher=Bahrain Centre for Human Rights |url=http://www.bahrainrights.org/node/1202 |url-status=dead |access-date=11 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110731132535/http://www.bahrainrights.org/node/1202 |archive-date=31 July 2011}}</ref><ref name="migrantworkers2">{{Cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=28 April 2007 |title=Bahraini parliament moves to segregate migrants from citizens |publisher=Migrant rights |url=http://www.migrant-rights.org/2007/04/28/bahraini-parliament-moves-to-segregate-migrants-from-citizens/ |access-date=11 July 2011}}</ref> [[Nabeel Rajab]], then BCHR vice president, said: "It is appalling that Bahrain is willing to rest on the benefits of these people's hard work, and often their suffering, but that they refuse to live with them in equality and dignity. The solution is not to force migrant workers into ghettos, but to urge companies to improve living conditions for workers – and not to accommodate large numbers of workers in inadequate space, and to improve the standard of living for them."<ref name="migrantworkers3" /><ref name="migrantworkers2" />