Saturday, September 24, 2011

Press and blogosphere review

Lebanon: Empowering Migrant Workers With Language
Global Voices Online
In Lebanon, approximately one domestic worker a week dies under murky circumstances (often described as “suicide”). Eighty percent of domestic migrant ...

Don't Let Her Commit Your Crime
Migrant Rights
Kafa is a local NGO operating from Lebanon, a country where a 2008 HRW report stated that the average death toll for domestic workers in Lebanon is one per ...

Domestic workers in Lebanon: Employed or enslaved?
Washington Times
One human rights advocate reported that at least four domestic migrant workers committed suicide after enduring workplace abuse in year 2007. ...

The Real Maids of Beirut « AFRICA IS A COUNTRY
By dmosh
If you've followed the news from the Lebanon over the last few years, you've read quite a bit about the difficult to desperate situation of domestic workers. Maids, child care providers, housekeepers face unrelenting abuse. They are assaulted ...

The Experiences of an Ethiopian Migrant Worker and Filmmaker in ...
Beirut is a drama about a group of Ethiopian girls in Lebanon working as domestic workers. It is loosely based on the Ethiopian girls that I have encountered ...

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