Lebanon: 20 kenyan women domestic workers allegedly denied the right to return to their country after being abused by their employers; pushed by employment agency and ignored by the Kenyan consulate
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Fecha comunicada: 14 Ene 2022
Ubicación: Líbano
Otro
Not Reported ( Agencias de trabajadores/as domésticos/as ) - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 20
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 20 - Kenia , Agencias de trabajadores/as domésticos/as , Gender not reported )Temas
Negación de la libertad de movimiento , Trabajo forzado y formas contemporáneas de esclavitud , Dismissal , Acoso sexual , Tortura y malos tratos , Discriminación por origen racial/ étnico/ de casta , Mujeres , ProtestasRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
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Medidas adoptadas: The Kenyan honorary Vice Consul Kassem Jaber denied any wrongdoing and said that “we are doing our best so we can get to our office to be able to proceed with the repatriation process,” but claimed that the women were not allowing them into the building.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
"I just want to go back home': Kenyan domestic workers protest for repatriation from Lebanon where 'living life with dignity is impossible" 14 January 2022
...The group of about twenty Kenyan women have transformed the front of the Kenyan consulate in Beirut into a makeshift encampment...
They allege that they have been mistreated at every stage of their stay in Lebanon, with abusive employers, deceitful employment agents and a predatory consulate making living life with dignity impossible...
Abuses against them range from extended working hours as there is no separation from workplace and home, to sexual abuse due to the physical and legal leverage that employers wield over them.
The Kenyan honorary Vice Consul Kassem Jaber denied any wrongdoing and said that “we are doing our best so we can get to our office to be able to proceed with the repatriation process,” but claimed that the women were not allowing them into the building.