It was meant to be funny. But Murr TV’s (Lebanese MTV) “Ktir Salbe” comedy show’s take on migrant domestic worker turned out to be racist, denigrating and dehumanizing towards these persons.
The show featured a 5 minute act where a couple was “negotiating” with a …
Archive for the ‘Racism’ Category
Uproar against Lebanon’s Murr TV (MTV) comedy show denigrating migrant domestic workers
February 1st, 2012
Libya’s ‘New Racism’
September 5th, 2011
Black African migrants in Libya face an increasingly perilous situation. As we have blogged before, black African migrants have been the target of attacks by anti-Gaddafi forces on suspicion of being mercenaries for the regime since the conflict in Libya began. Recent reports suggest that the dange...
Lebanon: Statement Against Segregation at Private Beaches
September 1st, 2011
The Lebanese Minister of Tourism ordered a decree this week calling on all tourism venues to adopt anti-discrimination policies. This is welcome news in Lebanon, a country where private beaches and hotels routinely deny entry to migrant domestic workers on the basis of their race: In a circular – ...
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...
أغنية تدق الناقوس: عبودية في لبنان
August 6th, 2011
Arabic Racism Slavery Suicide Working conditions
للمرة الأولى أغنية تعبر عن وضع العاملات الأجنبيات في لبنان: العنصرية، العبودية، حالات الانتحار…أو القتل.
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.
Migrant Domestic Workers in ADs
August 5th, 2011
Housemaids Lebanon Racism Videos
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...
Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel unite
July 14th, 2011
General Israel Racism Refugees Slavery Trafficking
“I didn’t feel my country as my country. Every day my life was disturbed, I was suppressed. I could not live my life in such a way”. These are the words of Kidane Isaac who was caught attempting to flee Eritrea by the border police and sent to military prison in 2007. After four months, he and...
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. ...
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