Given the ongoing (active and passive) campaigns against migrants and refugees in Lebanon, we see that the Racism Monitor (RM) is necessary to counter the hate speech and racist sentiments by several entities such as the media, politicians and political parties, and individual citizens in their racially-motivated attacks.

Thus, we aim through the RM to document, analyze and disseminate everything related to racism in the country including, but not restricted to, the following:

• • Racist coverage and media reports: scapegoating, misinformation and disinformation, even lack of proper or sufficient coverage of issues such as “mysterious” deaths of MDWs
  • Racist policies, decisions, circulars by municipalities and ministries: curfews, forbidding working outside of the town of residence, deportations, detentions, evictions, vaccination…
  • Racist speech and discourse by politicians and media in passing: app;ies to speeches or interviews that mention migrants and refugees negatively in passing. 
• Racist attacks and incidents: physical and verbal aggression against migrants and refugees; abuse, mistreatment and exploitation of live-in DWs by employers/sponsors/agencies … This would be similar to or inspired by the coverage of other organizations and outlets, however without shaming and sensationalization. 

In addition, the RM would entail fact-checking of misinformation which was tried once in a past news report.