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It's hard for me to comprehend what's going on in their country. For those boys to be kidnapped and murdered without any recourse is insane. For their police to travel in unmarked vehicles and treat people as they do is also insane. The world community should do something. There is clearly something wrong there.
David - USA

Foreign workers

We also looked at the poor treatment of South Asian workers in the Middle East.

Although his spoken english wasn't so good, Harbajan, an Indian working in the Gulf bravely told us how life was difficult for him and many of his colleagues. Many of you emailed the show from parts of the Gulf to tell us how big a problem it was .

Here's a selection of your emails and texts.

Why is it a surprise that foreign workers are not treated that well in the Gulf? They aren't treated that well -- yet are so needed -- in other parts of the world, like the US.
Steve Petersen - Dammeron Valley, Utah, USA

I'm currently working in Saudi Arabia, It's the worst country for treatment of foreign workers is this country. They are simply regarded as slave labour. their accommodation is poor and wages poor and often not paid for months on time. The problem is that the Saudi population think that any job that they have must be as a manager, and menial and labour jobs are beneath them. I currently have a friend , who is British, who works for a company who have not paid the equivalent of Saudi National insurance, and as such the government will not issue visas and iqamas, and as such cannot even leave the country,as well as being behind in payment of wages. They have workers here who didn't want to carry on with this company and have been stuck here for 4 months , because they can't get out! .We have 2 sayings over here ' saudiazation will only ever work when you see them sweeping there own streets' and the other is 'When you make love to your wife, is it work or pleasure? The Saudi replies pleasure. the reply is, it couldn't be work, otherwise you would get a Bangladeshi to do it! In Bahrain, they did a study on how much a normal monthly living allowance should be, and it was something like 365 bahranian dinars, which is nearly £450. Foreign workers are so much cheaper to employ for them.
Mark - Saudi Arabia

I think this issue has to be on the table of WTO and to create Mechanism with Enforcement that will ensure the rights of those workers and protect them from the abuses not only form kids but more from the adult.
Abdelmonim - Greensboro, North Carolina

Model behaviour

The author JK Rowling gained your support after her comments about worryingly young thin models being portrayed as an ideal in glossy magazines.

We asked you how you would react if your child wanted to take up modleeing as a career. Julie Holdsworth, a style consultant in the UK was in total agreement with the best selling author. She said images of young women looking painfully thin was sending out the wrong signal to girls. Jasminda a mother of a teenage daughter called to say she wouldn't mind if her daughter went into the modelling profession because it would send out a signal to others that you can be healthy and of average weight to grace the pages of womens fashion magazines.

Here are some of the comments we recieved from you during the programme.

Modelling backed up with education is very good. Naturally slim persons are the best fit for modelling but not artificially slim persons.
Suma in Freetown

When I lived in England I was an envied my size 10. Back home in Uganda curves are cool! Thinness is a western not a global value.
Susan Nangwal, Kenya

I don't think modelling is the best job for a girl. You have to expose your body in public, you may not become famous and you deprive yourself of food.
Soneye, Freetown.

That's it from us tonight, join us again tomorrow for another edition of World have Your Say.