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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.

Ethiopian domestic worker commits suicide in north Lebanon

And yet another migrant domestic worker commits suicide.

Jumping out of Lebanese Houses

في هذا المبنى، في منطقة الحمرا، تعمل عاملة كينية، لم يسبق لأحد من الجيران أن صادفوها يوما.

Maid badly injured in failed escape attempt from south Lebanon home

BEIRUT: A Kenyan maid was badly injured Monday after a rope she was using to escape from her employer’s third floor apartment snapped.

عاملات المنازل في لبنان لا يرغبن في الانتحار

بالفعل، وجّهت ثلاث رسائل وقّعت عليها كلّ من جانتيل وسوجانا وراحيل وإخلاص ولاكسمي وساراد ونيرو وسارسي.

3 domestic workers found dead across Lebanon

In Tripoli, a Bengali domestic worker was found “slaughtered” in bathroom of her employer’s house

North Lebanon ‘maid’ was on hunger strike before suicide: ministry

“Recently, the maid had been asking to go back to her country and see her children, the pictures of whom she had been carrying,” the statement said. “She refused to eat during her last three days and then committed suicide by hanging.”

The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers

In recent years, some countries have banned their citizens from working in Lebanon due to lack of legal protection and chronic human rights abuses, among them Philippines, Ethiopia, Nepal, Madagascar and most recently Kenya.

Lebanese Man Dies

So when it happens with a Lebanese person, versus a migrant worker, (may his RIP), we do not automatically call it suicide?

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