Tag: "migrant workers"
Urgent: Looking for Teachers for Language Classes
MWTF is looking for more volunteer teachers for its free weekly Sunday language classes to migrant and domestic workers. Every Sunday, languages classes in Arabic, English and French are held from 12 to 2 pm at Zico House in Sanayeh, Beirut. These classes are very informal and are not in your typical classroom setting. The [...]
Sale of the baskets made by the migrant workers
These baskets are produced by women in the Tripoli jail. There are about 120 women, sharing a number of cells, who worked as migrant domestic workers before they were arrested and put in jail. Some of them may be convicted of some simple crimes, some of them were detained for running away from their workplace. [...]
Remembering Samoay- Vigil this Sunday
Call to action this Sunday On Saturday, February 26 a 30-year old woman from Nepal named Samoay Wanching Tamang committed suicide at her employers apartment in Jdeide under mysterious circumstances. The Police are shutting up, her employers are shutting up, and no one is willing to ask WHY? Why is one migrant worker dying a [...]
!”النشرة الاخبارية الأولى لل”مجموعة النسوية
نرحب بكم/ن في النشرة الإلكترونية الأولى للمجموعة النسوية. كما تعلمون/تعلمن، قامت العام الماضي مجموعة من النسويات الشابات والنسويين الشباب بإطلاق المجموعة النسوية. وبعد عام مثير وحافل بالإنجازات – وخيبات الأمل – النسوية، وبعد وقفة استمرت بضعة أشهر وتخللتها جلسات عصف ذهني ونقاشات ومحادثات، قمنا بإعادة إطلاق محاولة أخرى للتنظيم النسوي مع العزيزة” فرح سلكا” كمنسقة [...]
First edition of Nasawiya’s Newsletter!
Welcome to the first edition of Nasawiya’s newsletter. As you know, a year ago a group of us young feminists launched the Feminist Collective (FC) in Beirut. After an exciting feminist 2009 full of achievements – and disappointments – and after a few months of hiatus that were not without brainstorming, discussions and conversations, we [...]
Focusing on Migrant Domestic Workers this Labor Day
Nasawiya and Ethiopian Suicides Blog are teaming up to raise awareness about migrant domestic workers this Labor Day (May 1). We’re planning several actions and events to highlight the plight of these more than 200,000 laborers in Lebanon. Maids are falling from the windows and balconies of employers and employment offices under dubious circumstances. This [...]
