This is a new advertisement from Money Gram, intended at being funny. In one of the videos, it shows a Filipino man speaking with a Lebanese man and in the other video the Lebanese woman is speaking to a Srilankan. Reality is in both videos, it is a voice over by a Lebanese man making fun of the 2 a…
Archive for the ‘Lebanon’ Category
Migrant Domestic Workers in ADs
August 5th, 2011
Housemaids Lebanon Racism Videos
Lebanon: Chaos and Abuse Continue under the Sponsorship System
August 5th, 2011
Abuse towards workers and domestic workers remains rampant. This article, published in the Lebanese Newspaper AlSafeer, describes the situation of migrant/domestic workers in Lebanon with a focus on the weekly deaths toll which is most of the time referred to as “suicide cases” although ...
Lebanon: Attempted suicide of an Ethiopian from a hospital
July 25th, 2011
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today the suicide attempt of an Ethiopian lady, Tseha K., who jumped from the first floor of a hospital in el-`Azounieh – Mdeirej, where she was being treating for a nervous breakdown. She sustained injuries in the head and hip. Information by security for...
Satirical Tourism Ads Highlight the Mistreatment of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
July 1st, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Lebanon Working conditions
Below is an interview we conducted with Alex Shams, a coordinator with the Migrant Workers Task Force in Lebanon. The organization recently produced three excellent spoof tourism ads for Lebanon, describing the different abuses domestic workers suffer in Lebanon. M-R: Could you describe the work of ...
Elementary School Students in Lebanon Tackle Abuse of Domestic Workers
May 29th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Racism
Below is an interview we conducted with a group of elementary school students from Lebanon who chose to focus on human rights of domestic workers in their class project. For their research, the children interviewed maids about the abuse they suffer and sought to understand the causes of this abuse. ...
Lebanon: One more Ethiopian Domestic Worker Presumably Commits Suicide
May 10th, 2011
Death Housemaids Lebanon Suicide
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 hospita...
Report: ‘Suicide’ of Pinay-DH in Lebanon
April 24th, 2011
April 24, 2011 Migrant rights group urges PH govt. to investigate, seeks justice An officer of a Filipino migrants’ rights group in the Middle East, said he had received information from fellow overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Lebanon about a reported death of a Filipina domestic helper. John L...
Filipino “suicide” by hanging in Lebanon
April 19th, 2011
The Lebanese National News Agency reported today the death by hanging of Filipino domestic worker Maritis Penno on the balcony of her employer’s house in Hasbaya, South Lebanon. Internal Security Forces, criminal investigators, and a doctor, Ahmad Daher, examined the body and the house, and co...
One Sri Lankan, one Bengali, found dead in Lebanon
March 18th, 2011
Death Housemaids Lebanon Recruitment Agencies Suicide
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today that the body of Sri Lankan domestic worker, Manaka Brinjani, was found in Baabdat two days ago. The death was caused by the fall from from a high rise building. The security bulletin said that she was attempting to escape from the employment office when s...
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