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Lebanon: Increase in death of migrant domestic workers

August 25th, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon Suicide

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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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...

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Lebanon: Second Nepalese found “dangling from a rope” in less than 10 days

August 10th, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon Suicide

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...

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Lebanon: Nepalese migrant worker found dead, dangling from a rope

August 2nd, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon Suicide

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, ...

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Lebanon: Ethiopian “jumps” from 8th floor in Beirut

July 27th, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon Suicide

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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Lebanese Center for Human Rights appeals for the release of Young Indian at Risk of Death

July 15th, 2010

Lebanon Prison Workers

Today, the Lebanese Center for Human Rights (LCHR) issued an urgent appeal calling for the release of Sany Kumar, a young Indian held in Roumieh for illegal entry in Lebanon. Sany is in danger of death. According to the LCHR, “having had a scooter accident, he was hospitalized two months ago,...

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Caught on Video: Swimming pool denies entry to migrant domestic worker in Lebanon

July 13th, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon Racism

In Lebanon, the newly formed Anti Racism Movement, part of the League of Independent Activists IndyACT, organized a direct action this weekend to highlight racism in Lebanese society towards migrant domestic workers and people of color in general. Below is the video of Anti Racism Movement activists...

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Lebanon: Nepalese maid dies. Strangulated?

July 6th, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon

Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today that a Nepalese migrant domestic workers, Shanta Baribar (or Paripar) was found dead, hanging from an electrical wire (or strangulated with an electrical wire; the word used by Al-Akbar can mean hanging or strangulated) in Ballouneh inside the house of Jos...

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Lebanon: Ethiopian falls from third floor, sustains injuries

June 8th, 2010

Housemaids Lebanon

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported today that Ethiopian national, Koma Seboka, born in 1982, fell from the balcony of her employer on the third floor in Naccache (North of Beirut). She sustained bruises, broken bones and injuries and was transferred to hospital. Antelias police station opened an investiga...

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