Collective Action
Several migrant domestic workers and representatives from human rights organizations gather outside the Baabda Justice Palace as the first criminal case in Lebanon alleging slavery and slave trading of a migrant domestic worker is being tried
Several migrant domestic workers and representatives from human rights organizations gathered outside the Baabda Justice Palace as the first criminal case in Lebanon alleging slavery and slave trading of a migrant domestic worker was brought to the halls of justice. Demonstrators stood in support of a 38-year-old Ethiopian woman. Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) alleges that the woman, who came to Lebanon under Lebanon’s widely criticized kafala, or sponsorship, system, was imprisoned in the home she worked at for nearly eight years, with her passport confiscated, and was not paid her salary. However, the hearing was postponed after the accused failed to appear.
Date:
October 19, 2021
Actors/ Mobilising structures:
Affected group (inc. NIMBY)
CSO
Multi-organisational field (collaboration, allies) :
N/A
Mode of Action:
Sit-in
Objective:
Reform (advocating for limited change in political, socio-economic etc.)
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA:
Injustice/Perceived injustice
Policy Grievances
Spatial characteristics:
Location on the Lebanese territory
Frequency:
Episodic
State response:
N/A