In the past few days, Al-Akhbar newspaper reported, based on police reports, the probable suicide, the death or the injury of several migrant domestic workers. The following is the resume:
On Saturday 21 August, at 2 p.m. a Bengali maid drowned and died in the swimming pool in the villa of her emplo…
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Lebanon: Increase in death of migrant domestic workers
August 25th, 2010
61 Stranded Nepali Migrants Rescued from Libya
August 23rd, 2010
A group of Nepali migrant workers stranded in Libya have been repatriated after a 22-month long ordeal involving unpaid wages, cramped and unhygenic living conditions and unscrupulous manpower agents. A total of 108 workers were forced to camp out in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after their employer...
Photographer Exposes the Unseen Lives of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
August 21st, 2010
Abusive employers Documentation Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Working conditions
Below is an interview with Matthew Cassel, an American photographer and journalist based in Lebanon about his photography project Unseen Lives: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon (see slideshow at the bottom of this post). In the interview Matthew describes how he was able to get close to the migra...
Israel Uses Collective Punishment to Ensure Migrants’ Children Deportation
August 11th, 2010
Recently the Israeli government decided to deport 400 of the 1,200 children of undocumented migrant workers and their family members from Israel. Previous decision of this sort were eventually not enforced, and reports about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s attempts to not carry our the decision hav...
Lebanon: Second Nepalese found “dangling from a rope” in less than 10 days
August 10th, 2010
Today, the Lebanese National News Agency reported that Nepalese migrant domestic worker, Lanta Hari (born 1990) committed suicide in the house of her employer M. Kh. after hanging herself from a rope, in Baabdat, Maten area. This comes less than 10 days after another Nepalese presumably hung herself...
Lack of Empathy Leads to Racism toward African Refugees in Israel
August 6th, 2010
Israel is the the home of approximately 26,000 Africans who have entered Israel illegally through Egypt. Roughly 80% of these migrants are recognized as asylum seekers by the State, and currently cannot be deported to their countries of origin due to dangers they face there. The asylum seekers are u...
Suicides among migrants in Kuwait persist at an alarming rate in June and July
August 5th, 2010
Documentation Housemaids Kuwait Suicide
Over the past two months, there have been 23 reported cases of suicide or attempted suicide by migrant workers in Kuwait, meaning that about every 2.5 days a migrant worker commits or attempts suicide in Kuwait. Migrant workers are often driven to suicide by harsh living and working conditions and a...
Lebanon: Nepalese migrant worker found dead, dangling from a rope
August 2nd, 2010
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today that, last Friday, a Nepalese migrant worker, Leila A. (40 years) was found hanging from her neck and dangling from a rope tied to her windows’ steel defenses in Fanar, North of Beirut. The cause of the incident and its circumstances remain unclear, ...
Lebanon: Ethiopian “jumps” from 8th floor in Beirut
July 27th, 2010
Yesterday, the Lebanese National News Agency reported that an Ethiopian migrant worker “committed suicide by throwing herself from the 8th floor”. Her body and scull were smashed as a result of the more than 30 meter fall. Assafir newspaper reported the news today as is. While Al-AKhbar ...
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