Rahel Zegeye is a domestic worker in Lebanon, but that is not all she is: this is precisely the filmmaker’s message in her rising film “Beirut,” which delves into the personal lives of six fictional Ethiopian migrants. While Zegeye does not shy away from denunciating the severe mis…
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Don’t Let Her Commit Your Crime
September 13th, 2011
Housemaids Lebanon Suicide Working conditions
Last week, Kafa announced the launching of their new, long awaitned media campaign for raising consciousness on domestic workers issues, with a clear focus on the tremendously high suicide rates. Kafa is a local NGO operating from Lebanon, a country where a 2008 HRW report stated that the average de...
Positive Changes for Migrants in Lebanon?
September 10th, 2011
Lebanon has made some changes to the way that it receives migrant workers, according to this article in the DailyStar Changes include the distribution of manuals to incoming workers on rights and responsibilities, trained staff on hand to ‘greet’ incoming workers and better rooms in theÂ...
Ad Campaign on Suicides
September 2nd, 2011
A new campaign by Lebanese organisation Kafa tackles the issues of weekly “suicides” by migrant domestic workers. This is a brave campaign compared to many previous others which have been labelled as apologetic and unconsiouly racist by civil society actors while trying to tackle racism....
Wikileaks and Migrant Workers
September 1st, 2011
Wikileaks are out again with a new batch of information and data. This time, there is tons of content on the situation of migrants in the region and specifically the issue of trafficking. Check this document as a sample. This is a paragraph Ethiopian Suicides linked to. – From late 2005 to ear...
What Does Slavery Look Like in Lebanon?
August 24th, 2011
Abusive employers General Lebanon Slavery Sponsorship Working conditions
This week, a BCC News article by Hannah McNeish was published and shared all over blogs and portals in the MiddleEast. It was highly disseminated and created a huge buzz in the region. It spoke of an issue tackled more and more with time, but almost unexceptionally on the surface only: “maid slave...
How do you build servitude?
August 22nd, 2011
Lebanon Racism Recruitment Agencies Slavery
Here, is a tough article by Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar, on the House Keepers’ Training Academy. The article is very well written because it depicts the whole mentality behind the “owners” of this business by just stating facts and statements that they said. Read the full article...
Poem
August 21st, 2011
A touching poem by an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker living in Beirut for the past 8 years. It mirrors a lot. Linked from here. On refuge, I thought that there was really going to be a change in my life. I didn’t know it’s grave like you die. I was thinking also about dollars. To grat...
Lebanon’s Invisible Workers
August 5th, 2011
Housemaids Lebanon Racism Women
Following up on the HouseKeeper’s Training Academy proposed two weeks ago, here is a short coverage on the issue.
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