After less than one month on the job, Filipino housemaid Amelyn Albores Sayson has commit suicide by jumping from the fifth story balcony of her employer’s (read: owner’s) apartment. These stories come out of Lebanon rather frequently. Migrant Rights posted …
Posted in Housemaids, Lebanon, News | 1 CommentNaharNet is reporting that over 300 Filipino migrant workers from Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are returning to their home country, with Filipino Labor Secretary Arturo Brion reporting that many of them had complained of “unpaid salaries, abuses, maltreatment, sexual harassments …
Posted in Lebanon, News, Saudi Arabia | Leave a commentby Yaman Salahi Sushar Rosky, born 1987, hangs from the balcony of the apartment in which she worked as a maid for only 20 days in Sidon, Lebanon. She hung herself with bits of clothe carefully tied together in 2005. …
Posted in Abusive employers, Housemaids, Lebanon, Racism, Slavery, Sponsorship, Women, Workers, Working conditions | 6 CommentsA Modern-Day “Slave Trade”: Sri Lankan Workers in Lebanon, reported by Reem Haddad: In what can be termed a modern-day slave trade, Sri Lankan women arrive in Lebanon only to find themselves abused, imprisoned, raped, hungry, defenseless and alone. Siriani …
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