The Lebanese National News Agency reported on May 9 2011 the presumed suicide of an Ethiopian domestic worker, who was found dead in the bathroom of her employer’s office in Antelias, North of Beirut. She presumably hung herself, according to the news brief. She was taken to Abu Jawdeh hospital, and an investigation by Antelias police station is underway.
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The only way to stop this kind of tragedy is, to stop sending the Domestc workers from any countries to the middel east. The law in the middel east and Lebanon, doese not allow the freedom of free movement of any women. Wemen must be accompanied by their love once, where ever they want to go, shopping, dinning or even visiting their own relatives. If this is the domistic law, it can only be understood in the moslem world and moslem culture. The Filipina, thailand or ethiopian ladies doesnot understand this culture. Bangladesh has long time ban the departure of its women long years ago, becuse of such mal treatment. It dosenot mean all the employers in the middel east are bad. There are some who are very good people, to the extent they even go beyond there means to make the domestic helpers happy. The only way out to this problem is to help the country of origin, where the domestic helper come from, to help creat a local employment so they can sty at home. To the hounst and nice employers, the rcruiting Agency shoul ask a heavy service-charge encluding a return Ticket for the domestic helpers, and make a fair agreement between the Agency and the Employeer, that the Domestic helper should be visited time to time ba her local embassy representatives. <and the <domestic helperes should be given proper lesson how the shoul behave and work in middel-east