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This blog is dedicated to women from Sri lanka and Ethiopia working as domestic workers in Beirut, Lebanon. These women take upon themselves great voyages to foreign countries in the hope of a better future. Their courage and endurance is outstanding.

As time passes, the issues covered in this blog have expanded to cover other kinds of specific women's work like sex work, historical ways of describing the plight of women: white slavery, human traffic or modern slavery as well identitarian politics and gender...

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6 juin 2007 3 06 /06 /juin /2007 15:01
What is human trafficking (1)?
What is human trafficking (1)?
Lately, I am getting more and more confused about the concept of human traffic as applied to women migrating to work. What is the difference between human traffic and smuggling? What is the difference between human traffic and abusive work conditions...
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12 mai 2007 6 12 /05 /mai /2007 22:51
Migrant women and the labour market: diversity and challenges
Brussels, 26-27/09/2005- Joint EC-OECD seminar on "Migrant women and the labour market" The aim of the seminar on "Migrant women and the labour market: diversity and challenges" was to gain a better understanding of migrant women's position in the labour...
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24 avril 2007 2 24 /04 /avril /2007 22:28
UNFPA State of the World Report 2006
Today, women constitute almost half of all international migrants worldwide—95 million. Yet, despite contributions to poverty reduction and struggling economies, it is only recently that the international community has begun to grasp the significance...
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20 février 2007 2 20 /02 /février /2007 23:42
Le documentaire
Le documentaire
We edited the first images we have. They still need context, but some of them are very beautiful: an Ethiopian Christian mass in Beirut filled with dancing a singing women celebrating St. Gabriel, a kindergarten full of migrant children showing a form...
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15 février 2007 4 15 /02 /février /2007 02:03
Daughters of the Republic
Daughters of the Republic
Daughters of the Republic A talk with Sihem Habchi, vice-president of "Ni Putes, Ni Soumises" Tension is in the air in the headquarters of "ni putes ni soumises" in Paris . The women and men sitting side by side in the crammed offices have only one thing...
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13 février 2007 2 13 /02 /février /2007 13:11
Fight Sexism
Fight Sexism

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13 février 2007 2 13 /02 /février /2007 13:10
Robustesse et perfection technique
Robustesse et perfection technique
Productive work produces profit in the capitalist system. But because workers need to eat, sleep and reproduce themselves to ensure that also tomorrow they will be able to contribute productively to society they need someone to take care of these domestic...
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13 février 2007 2 13 /02 /février /2007 13:04
Ethiopian Religious Ceremony in Beirut
Ethiopian Religious Ceremony in Beirut
In June 2003, Walid, Steph and me went to an Ethiopian religious ceremony, the festivity of St. Gabriel in a church in Beirut. As the ethiopian community in Lebanon consists almost exclusively of women, the ceremony included but one man: the priest, especially...
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9 janvier 2007 2 09 /01 /janvier /2007 15:13
Thousand of Vacancies
Thousand of Vacancies
This photo was taken in Mumbai, India in 2003
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9 janvier 2007 2 09 /01 /janvier /2007 15:12
Drecksarbeit
Drecksarbeit

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