Case Advocacy
Bring Sami Back
On Saturday 21st of January 2023, our colleague, ally, and friend Samuel (Sami) Tesfaye was arrested in Beirut Rafic Hariri airport, on his way back from Ethiopia for a family visit. The arrest is under the premise that Sami violated the arbitrary conditions of his residency, imposed on him, and countless migrants, by the Kafala system.
After 6 months of arbitrary detention, NM is free!
Kenyan Refugee and Activist NM has just been released by the Lebanese authorities, following her arrest in April this year.
Urgent Action Needed to Hold the Kenyan Consulate in Lebanon Accountable to Kenyan Citizens in the Country
Since the 6th of January 2022, Kenyan women have been holding a sit-in along with protests in front of their Consulate in Lebanon, demanding repatriation and adequate support from the Consular Staff.
Justice for Faustina: We call for a proper investigation into Faustina’s death and real accountability for her perpetrators
On March 14, Faustina Tay, a young woman from Ghana, was discovered dead in the car park of her employer’s home in Beirut. She is yet another migrant domestic worker to lose her life under the kafala system.
Activist Detained by General Security, at Risk of Deportation, Torture and Death
Mubarak Ibrahim, a Sudanese human rights activist, is under imminent threat of deportation to Sudan where he is at very high risk of detention, torture and death at the hands of the Sudanese authorities.
UNHCR Complicit in Detention of Sudanese Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Policemen detained ten Sudanese and Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers on Thursday, December 3rd, 2019, after more than two months of peaceful protest in front of the UNHCR building in Jnah.
UNHCR Must Take Immediate Action to Rectify its History of Negligence Towards Sudanese Asylum Seekers in Lebanon
ARM sent an open letter to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Mr. Filippo Grandi & UNHCR Representative in Lebanon Ms. Mireille Girard, to take concrete measures to meet the demands of Sudanese and other African refugees and asylum seekers who have been protesting against UNHCR’s neglect of their files for over nine years.
Release 5-Year-Old Girl and Her Family from Detention and Stop Deportation
We call for the immediate release of Beirut, a 5-year-old girl born in Lebanon, and her Sri Lankan and Sudanese family, from administrative detention. General Security told the family they would be deported to Sudan and Sri Lanka, separating them permanently, and putting them at risk of violence and persecution.
LEBANON: Stop the deportation of Sudanese refugees
The Lebanese General Security has issued deportation orders for the three men. According to their families, they were informed of this by a UNHCR representative and General Security.
Urgent Action Needed to Hold the Kenyan Consulate in Lebanon Accountable to Kenyan Citizens in the Country
Since the 6th of January 2022, Kenyan women have been holding a sit-in along with protests in front of their Consulate in Lebanon, demanding repatriation and adequate support from the Consular Staff.
BURIED ALIVE! Stop torture of migrants and refugees!
Solidarity Sit-In with the detainees at General Security detention centerOn June 26, International Day in support of Victims of Torture, we are calling for a solidarity sit-in with the migrants and refugees of Lebanon at 6:00 pm in front of the General Security detention place in Adlieh, Beirut (on the roundabout).
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 in Antelias.
Alem Desisa is Dead, when will you do somthing about it?
It’s been always really hard to explain how a girl, a migrant domestic worker ends up committing suicide. And what makes it harder is when this girl is killed and then claimed that she had committed suicide in order to protect the Lebanese employer from legal prosecution.
