Following the string of suicides by maids in Lebanon, Nepal’s Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) announced its decision to stop granting permissions for women to work in Lebanon as domestic worker. Nepal News reported that the Nepali recruitment agencies, which were supposed to build shelters for their workers and check on their condition by calling them twice a month, did not comply with their commitments to the Nepalese government.
Nepal Stops Allowing Women to Leave for Work in Lebanon
November 29th, 2009
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November 29, 2009
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January 2, 2010
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January 2, 2010
[...] abuse domestic workers suffer in Lebanon. Following the string of suicides in October 2009, Nepal banned its women from working in Lebanon and a court in Lebanon sentenced an employer to a short prison [...]