Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today the fall of Ethiopian domestic worker, Shioai A. from the 3rd floor of her employer’s house in Tripoli (Northern Lebanon). She sustained severe injuries in the head and in the stomach and was transferred to hospital. Her health situation is unstable….
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Lebanon: Two Falls in Two days, Presumed Suicides
October 16th, 2010
Al-Akhbar newspaper reported today the death, last Thursday night, of Bengali maid, Kana Aktar, after falling from the 5th floor balcony of her employer’s house (Najwa S.) in Hart Hreik (Beirut Southern Suburb). Al-Akhbar noted that “the Internal Security Forces (ISF) report concluded wi...
Lebanon: One more Ethiopian “suicide” today
October 15th, 2010
The National News Agency reported today the suicide of Ethiopian maid Tana Amny Bou Aziz who jumped from the balcony of her employer’s home in Shiah, a Beirut Southern suburb. The coroner who examined the body confirmed that the death was due to the full shattering of the scull and of the body...
Assistance request: Kenyan family seeking to find the body of dead relative in Lebanon
September 15th, 2010
On September 1, 2010, Ethiopian Suicides blog posted that a Kenyan migrant worker was found dead after falling from the sixth floor while trying to escape her employer’s house. The Kenyan migrant was not named. On September 8, a comment was published under the post which said “One of our...
Lebanon: Malagasy migrant domestic worker falls from fifth floor, dies
September 7th, 2010
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported today the death of Malagasy migrant worker, Doris Jajitia (25 years old), last Thursday, after falling from the fifth floor balcony of her employer in Mtayleb (North of Beirut). Police reports have concluded that it’s a suicide, in less than 24 hours, acco...
Lebanon: Increase in death of migrant domestic workers
August 25th, 2010
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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