Tag: Kafala
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‘We Are Not Slaves, We Want Our Rights’: Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers March on Labour Day
Hundreds of migrant domestic workers and Lebanese activists took to the streets on Labour Day to protest against Lebanon’s notorious Kafala system and for justice.
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Nine Lebanese Civil Society Organizations condemn expulsion of children of migrant workers
Press Release: 9 Civil Society Organizations condemn decision to not renew residency permits for children of Migrant Workers
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Witness: Ivorian Woman Pushed Off 6th Floor for Demanding Salary
“A young Ivorian woman was found dead after having been reportedly pushed off the 6th floor of an apartment in Beirut”
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Workers’ Day Parade and Festival for Migrant Workers
“The Anti-Racism Movement and Fi Chi Ghalat are organizing the 4th annual Workers’ Day Parade in celebration of Labor Day, demanding better legal protection for Domestic Workers in Lebanon suffering…
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Witness: “I’m being held as a slave in Lebanon” – #NabatiehSlaves
Ivory Coast-based Koaci.com has learned that 6 women are currently held in slavery conditions in Nabatieh, South Lebanon within a “Mafia-like” network. The following is a rough English translation of…
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What an investigation of Racism in Lebanon revealed
France24 lead an investigation in Lebanon to try and find out whether domestic workers suffer abuse in Lebanon. I’m sure you already know the answer.
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Start Listening
A year ago, a woman named Alem Dechasa committed suicide by hanging herself in her room at Der El-Salib mental hospital.
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Honest Advertising
In recent history, no business has received more criticism than the business of Responsible Slavery.
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Risking your life on Christmas Day
This is the 3rd time we receive photographic evidence of a migrant worker risking her life to clean a window.
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‘I Have a Dream for Justice in Lebanon’
This video will help you to understand the slavery-like conditions that they are currently subjected to under the sponsorship system.
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What slavery looks like
This picture was uploaded on the Anti-Racism Movement’s Facebook page by Gary Lian. What more powerful reminder do we need? the conditions that migrant workers have to go through in…
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ARM: Worker from the Philippines dead
by Elia Ayoub The Anti-Racism Movement shared this on Facebook today: Janice Soriano de Jose, worker from the Philippines, was found dead at the bottom of this building last stormy…
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ARM: Worker from the Philippines dead
ARM: Worker from the Philippines dead
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One Racist Conversation
by Elia Ayoub Lady in coffee place in Hamra to some guy, 20 minutes ago: – So should I take the Filipino? – I don’t know is she good? –…
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ARM: Lebanese Beaches that openly segregate [Video]
By Elia Ayoub The Anti-Racism Movement released this video of a member calling different establishments and asking them if they would allow a migrant worker to swim if he/she paid…
![ARM: Lebanese Beaches that openly segregate [Video]](https://eliaayoub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/images.jpg)
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Do Not Forget Alem Dechasa
“What makes it harder is when this girl is killed and then claimed that she had committed suicide in order to protect the Lebanese employer from legal prosecution.”
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Alem Dechasa, the Ethiopian lady who was abused by Ali Mahfouz, commits suicide today
LBCI reported today that the Ethiopian lady has committed suicide in Deir el Salib. I repeat once more that I, as a Lebanese citizen, want Ali Mahfouz in jail and…
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Lebanese Man beats an Ethiopian Woman, Raises Questions over Kafala System – Video
“What we need is to abolish the racist Kafala System condemned by the International Labor Organization”
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Film Screening of “Beirut” by Rahel Zegeye
Reblogged from Migrant Workers Task Force Rahel Zegeye, an Ethiopian migrant worker, MWTF member, language student, and filmmaker, is proud to be presenting her first feature film with the support…
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Lebanon: Nepali suicide last Sunday in Ashrafieh
Lebanon: Nepali suicide last Sunday in Ashrafieh
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Beirut death of Nepalese migrant worker Lila – video
Beirut death of Nepalese migrant worker Lila
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“Life Bar” Gemmayze asks guests to dress as maids
“This Friday Night, Be Sinkara or Milenga.. Be Soumatra or Domma.. Create your own Maid Costume, Speak Like them and look like a Philippino, Bengladish, Sri Lanka or any maid…
