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Katrina Sison

Human rights group say Lebanon courts not protecting foreign maids - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

  • legal obstacles discourage many workers from filing claims and that abusive employers often go unpunished or face light sentences.
  • About 200,000 migrants work in Lebanon, mostly from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and the Philippines and Nepal.
  • concern about the treatment of millions of mostly Asian women who work as maids across the Middle East, where allegations of abuse are common.
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  • pregnant when her employer in Qatar raped her, according to a lawmaker in the Philippines.
  • Philippine woman
  • Sri Lankan maid
  • hammered nails and needles into her body.
  • Their earnings amount to billions of dollars of remittances sent home each year.
  • not one employer was charged with locking workers inside homes, confiscating their passports or denying them food
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Hizballah (Party of God) - 0 views

  • mbushing convoys, laying explosive devices booby-trapping cars, and launching long range mortar shells
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LEBANON: Sex trafficking remains a hidden crime | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times - 0 views

  • to work as models, masseuses or dancers in nightclubs.
  • sold by criminal networks to brothels,
  • report about human trafficking in Lebanon
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  • destination for potential victims of human trafficking, especially for sex-related purposes.
  • remains hidden and few cases are reported
  • afraid to speak out
  • Many simply do not know their rights
  • absence of laws explicitly criminalizing trafficking.
  • 60 cases of human trafficking are officially identified every year
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