Silent Vigil for Shanti Rai
Shanti Rai is a Nepalese domestic worker in Lebanon. She arrived to Lebanon on Feb. 5 2010. She died in Lebanon on Aug. 18 2012. She was 26 years old. Her body was found hanging in a DVD shop [...]
Category: Migrant Rights
One Year Anniversary of Migrant Community Center
One year has passed. Time runs by so quickly! On September 11, 2011, the Migrant Community Center opened its doors. So much has happened since then. Happy days and less happy ones:) Dozens of events, classes, workshops, meetings, celebrations, cases handled and most importantly, lots people coming in and being connected. To celebrate this special [...]
Action Alert: Sudanese Refugees on Hunger Strike in Front of UNHCR
On June 12, a number of Sudanese refugees in Lebanon started a hunger strike in front of the UNHCR building in Jnah, Beirut. The refugees and their families, a total of around 250 persons, have been awaiting on the margins of legality in Lebanon for many years. We interviewed the men who are camped out [...]
Workers Day- Parade and Festival
Celebrate Workers’ Day! End Slavery! End Sponsorship for Migrant Domestic Workers *** Join us for a cultural parade and festival to celebrate Workers’ Day and demand change of the sponsorship system Time and Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012 starting 11:30 am Location: from Makhlouf Restaurant in Dora to St. Joseph Church in Monot Street Organized [...]
Donations Needed for New Migrant Day Care Center
Dear friends, In September 2011, the Migrant Center opened in Nabaa as a space for women from migrant communities to meet and organize together. Now, a few activists from Anti-Racism Movement have rented out a small space right next to the Migrant Center and are turning it into a daycare center for children of migrant [...]
وقفة إحتجاجية أمام وزارة العمل
Because the violence that migrant workers are subjected to in homes is the violence that leads to their suicides, and because trapping them in houses and withholding their passports, on top of the beatings, cursing and insults, and work without a day off and open-ended work-hours, is considered slavery in all parts of the world. [...]
Call for Action Meeting – Lila friends
Dear Friends, a call for action to Lila. Lila, a mother of two from Nepal found dead in Beirut, as you may have already read in Guardian. This Tuesday , we are meeting in Nasawiya at 8 pm to join forces and plan action against this frightful crime. Kindly share this event to spread the [...]
Tripoli Activities: A Talk on Racism
Saturday, December 3 | 5pm | Tripoli | FB Event This Saturday, we’re heading back up to Tripoli where the North Nasawiyas will be having a discussion on racism in Lebanon. Join us to share your thoughts about why racism is so normalized in Lebanon, how and where it happens and in what forms, and what can we do [...]
KAFA launches domestic workers rights campaign
In a country where little, if ever, is being said about the constantly escalating death rate of migrant workers, Kudos to Kafa and to the few who speak up. BEIRUT: The nongovernmental organization KAFA: Enough Violence and Exploitation has launched a media campaign to raise awareness of the often dangerous conditions which foreign domestic workers [...]
The Lebanese Madame/Mister Training Academy
The Lebanese Madame/Mister Training Academy is pleased to invite you to sign up for our first session of classes! The Lebanese Madame/Mister Training Academy seeks to teach Madames and Misters how to treat a domestic worker who comes to live in their home with respect and dignity. It is the first course of its kind [...]
