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…
Archive for the ‘Working conditions’ Category
How do you build servitude?
August 22nd, 2011
Lebanon Racism Recruitment Agencies Slavery
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...
Deaths, suicides and more clorox incidents
August 19th, 2011
The situaiton in Kuwait the past two weeks has been chaotic and ugly. The Arab Times reports here on a 39-year old Indian worker who has died. Her body was found in her sponsor’s house after -it is presumed- that she committed suicide. A case was filed- let us hope it is a little more hopeful ...
Ramadan, holy month, for some
August 10th, 2011
Even in Ramadan, a month idolized by most Muslims, disrimination remains rampant and pretty obvious between different groups living in the same country. This article shows how this is happenning in Qatar. Janitorial workers employed by a number of cleaning services companies are required to work 12...
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.
Sri Lanka aims to improve rights for women migrant workers abroad
August 6th, 2011
Death Gulf Housemaids Saudi Arabia Working conditions
“More attention is being given to the problems faced by the migrants,” she says. “Training for the foreign job seekers [has] been given by the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau, which is very important.” As hundreds of thousands of women leave Sri Lanka to work in foreign countries every y...
Kuwaiti Government Official Rejects US Report on Human Trafficking
July 18th, 2011
Housemaids Kuwait Trafficking Working conditions
Kuwait has been rated many times as one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to combating human trafficking as seen in the US State Department annual reports, Human Rights Watch, and other international human rights organizations. On the 14th of July, Al-Qabas newspaper published statem...
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...
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 ...
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