Reem Haddad In what can be termed a modern-day slave trade, Sri Lankan women arrive in Lebanon only to find themselves abused, imprisoned, raped, hungry, defenseless and alone. Siriani P., 27, came to Beirut in a desperate attempt to save her family from...
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MAID FOR SALE BONNE À VENDRE Dima Al-Joundi Lebanon / France, 2006 colour, HD, 53' min. Original Language(s): Sinhala/French/English/Arabic Subtitles: French/English To flee from their country's extreme poverty and provide for their family's survival,...
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Merip Monica Smith (Monica Smith is completing her M.A. in geography at the University of Colorado in Boulder . Her thesis is on domestic labor migration, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Middle East .) Twenty-two year old Leela made a promise to...
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Jureidini Ray (2003). "L’échec de la protection de l’État : les domestiques étrangers au Liban". Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales , Volume 19 , Numéro 3 , p. 95-127. Accessible en ligne à l'URL : http://remi.revues.org/document485.html...
Lire la suiteTuesday, December 19, 2006 Stranded Pinoys in still traded, group says By Isagani de la Paz (Sun Star of Manila) QUEZON CITY -- Filipino workers, mostly women, in Lebanon are still being traded for new employees after getting sidetracked from work when...
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Migrant Workers in by Michael Young 2000 The objective of this study is to examine the conditions of migrant workers in , their roles, problems, networks, and future. It is inevitable that such a study will, in many respects, say as much about Lebanese...
Lire la suite"Maid in ": protecting the rights of migrant domestic workers Driven by extreme poverty in their home countries, thousands of female migrant workers go each year to the Arab States in order to earn enough money to support their families. What they find...
Lire la suiteBrief on Foreign Female Domestic Maids in Lebanon LEBANESE NGO FORUM By: Dr Ray Jureidini and Nayla Moukarbel Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences American University of Beirut December, 2000 http://www.lnf.org.lb/migrationnetwork/mig6.html
Lire la suiteThe Chairman of the Foreign Employment Bureau was quoted saying that the Government hopes to evacuate 2600 Sri Lankan workers registered with the Sri Lanka embassy in Beirut. Only one casualty has been reported up to now out of the 80,000 workers involved.three...
Lire la suiteAntislavery International, 2005 Lebanon is a destination country for trafficked women for domestic work from Asian and African countries. Various reports also mention women trafficked for sexual purposes, mainly from Eastern Europe . The country is to...
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