Collective Action

Kenyan women workers have been staging a sit-in outside the Kenyan consulate in Beirut for a week to demand to go back home

Kenyan workers’ sit-in in front of their consulate has been going on for a week, to demand their return to Kenya and their colleagues’ release from the Caritas shelter, where they are being mistreated.

يستمرّ اعتصام العاملات الكينيّات أمام قنصليّة بلادهنّ منذ أسبوع، للمطالبة بعودتهنّ إلى ديارهنّ، وعودة زميلاتهنّ المتواجدات في ملجأ كاريتاس حيث يتعرّضن لسوء المعاملة.

Date: 
January 13, 2022
Actors/ Mobilising structures: 
Workers group (inc.union, syndicate, etc.)
Multi-organisational field (collaboration, allies) : 
N/A
Mode of Action: 
Sit-in
Objective: 
Demands for rights/services
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA: 
Access to socio-eco rights
Injustice/Perceived injustice
Spatial characteristics: 
Transnational
Frequency: 
Continuous
State response: 
N/A

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Village Name: 
Furn ech Chebak
Local Name: 
Forn El-Chobbek
Caza: