#Slavery: Five Areas to Watch in 2018
As we look forward to the year ahead, our Executive Director takes a moment to reflect on some key focus areas in the fight to end modern slavery in 2018, and considers where some of our greatest challenges lie.
Tag: Slavery
‘Traffickers take all that makes you human’: faces of modern slavery – in pictures
Survivors of human trafficking recount how they were raped, abused, and exploited as they became 21st century slaves.
Slave labour? Death rate doubles for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
A woman with a pink cloth wrapped around her head climbs out of a window on the fourth floor of a residential building.
UN gives Qatar a year to end forced labour of migrant workers
Qatar has been given 12 months to end migrant worker slavery or face a possible United Nations investigation.
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We received this photo today. It’s 2016. Domestic workers, at many times, still do not sit with the families that they work for on same table.
Women from Sierra Leone ‘sold like slaves’ into domestic work in Kuwait
Kuwait has the highest ratio of domestic workers to citizens in the Middle East. And no legal protection to all of them.
The World Should Not Tolerate Modern-Day Slavery in Qatar
We’ve still got seven years to go until the 2022 World Cup and it’s already an unmitigated disaster.
Lebanon’s maid trade is modified slavery
The [agency] informed me that the company does its best not to recruit maids who are prone to depression or are otherwise problematic.
إشتركوا في النشرة الإلكترونية
نعمل في حركة مناهضة العنصرية بجهد على العديد من النشاطات والمبادرات المختلفة. معظم نشاطنا تعدّ في الإمكان بفضل فريق من المتطوعين/ات يعمل مع فريقنا الأساسي بشغف و إخلاص.
حركة مناهضة العنصرية هي حركة شعبيّة أنشأتها جهات شبابيّة ناشطة في لبنان بالتعاون مع عمّال وعاملات أجانب. نعمل معًا في الحركة على توثيق الممارسات العنصرية والتحقيق فيها وفضحها ومحاربتها من خلال مبادرات وحملات عديدة. تمّ إطلاق حركة مناهضة العنصرية عام 2010 عقب حادثة وقعت في أحد أكثر المنتجعات البحرية الخاصّة المعروفة في بيروت.
