#kafala

[musingsunderstarlight]

‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system — Guardian US

Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish f

[thisislebanon]

آلعربية 👇👇👇 Rabih Halabi and Grace Farfour, owners of Grassias Hotel in Halba, owe a total of $7,800 to Ruth and Meseret, the two domestic workers they kept in forced labour. Despite breaking almost every rule in the Ministry of Labour Work Contract, they felt an enormous sense of entitlement. Negotiations to free the two workers took months because Grace and Rabih stopped taking our calls and had kept the two workers undocumented. Grace said she'd done them a favour by giving them a roof over their head instead of throwing them out on the street as other employers had done. Negotiations to obtain at least a partial payment of Ruth and Meseret's salaries have been unsuccessful. For the full story: https://go.thisislbn.com/aruth إن ربيع حلبي وغريس فرفور، أصحاب فندق غراسياس في حلبا، يدينان بمبلغ قدره 7.800 دولار لعاملتين منزليتين كانتا تعملان لديهما بالسخرة. وعلى الرغم من انتهاك كل بند تقريباً في عقد العمل الصادر من وزارة العمل، فقد شعروا بإحساس هائل بالأحقية. استغرقت المفاوضات أشه

[chrxs97]

feel that 👽

[thisislebanon]

A journalist visits the house where 5 Sierra Leonean women lost their lives and records their testimonies.

[thisislebanon]

See the conversation about: "Mariama managed to record the beating administered to her by her agent and sent us pics of the welt marks on her body. Abuse by agents is common. Who will hold them accountable for the abuse? #AbolishKafala #ThisIsLebanon #Ghana #Racism #Accra #Lebanon #MigrantWorkers #MigrantWomen #DomesticWorkersUnite #WorkersRights #WomensRights #Justice #WorkersUnited ⁠#Slavery #EndSlavery #ThisIsLeban" with this-is-lebanon. Don't miss out. Get our updates at https://thisislebanon.info/get-the-updates.

[thisislebanon]

Excellent video on the kafala system in Lebanon.

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العربية 👇👇👇 Jovelyn alleges that Dr Ousama Tabbara, her employer, raped her many times. She subsequently became pregnant. She and two other workers were rescued by the police from the Tabbara household. A DNA test was carried out on the foetus before Jovelyn traveled but Tabbara is denying paternity. Jovelyn has raised a lawsuit against Tabbara however the case has been continually postponed and it is unlikely she will ever receive justice in the courts. TW: **video contains mention of sexual assault. See the full story at https://thisislbn.com/jovelyn تدعي جوفلين أن صاحب عملها الدكتور أسامة طبارة اغتصبها عدة مرات. وبعد ذلك حملت. أنقذتها الشرطة وعاملتان آخرتان من منزل طبارة. تم إجراء اختبار الحمض النووي على الجنين قبل سفر جوفلين لكن طبارة تنكر الأبوة. رفعت جوفلين دعوى قضائية ضد طبارة لكن القضية يتم تأجيلها باستمرار ومن غير المرجح أن تحصل على العدالة في المحاكم. **يحتوي الفيديو على إشارة إلى اعتداء جنسي.

[thisislebanon]

It was a pleasure to assist Margaret get her $1000 she worked so hard for. It took a few months of advocating on her behalf but she did, eventually, get paid in full. كان من دواعي سرور جمعية “هذا لبنان” أن تتمكن من مساعدة العاملة “تيته مارغريت مامله”، البالغة من العمر خمسة وعشرين عاماً، من غانا، في الحصول على راتبها غير المدفوع من أصحاب العمل. #thisislebanon #AbolishKafala