“Lebanon’s police and judiciary are complicit”

Human Rights Watch takes on the case of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon:

In a 54-page report entitled: “Without Protection: How the Lebanese Justice System Fails Migrant Domestic Workers,” the New York-based watchdog found that Lebanese authorities largely ignore violations involving domestic workers, whose legal complaints can often languish in court for more than four years.

You can read the report here, but first check out this collection of quotes by abused workers as tweeted by a reporter who was at the HRW event:

Police complicity

Police told the migrant domestic worker, after reporting her being raped: “What do you decide? Do you want to go back to Madagascar or stay in Beirut?”

Cruelty of the ‘Madame”

“Madame would slap my face, and take my head and push me into the wall”

..and the perverted “Mister”

“Mister would put a porn movie on the TV and…force me to look at the movie. He said ‘you have to do the same’.”

The kind people of Lebanon should have revolted by now.