Originally Posted on my blog Free Thinking Lebanon If you happen to have a Lebanese friend, you might have spotted the enthusiasm in his or her speech when they tell you about Lebanon and its wonderful culture. They must have …
Posted in Atheism, Lebanon, Religion, Satire, Society | 3 Comments“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein. A man of knowledge and wisdom I must say, and that statement can’t help …
Posted in Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, USA, War | 19 CommentsWhile politicians [in Lebanon] are taken by this naive campaign [elections], the people are looking forward to a totally different kick-off: The 2010 Fifa World-Cup
Posted in Democracy, Ethics, Events, Lebanon, Middle East, Politics | Tagged corruption, Democracy, Lebanon, Lebanon Elections, Middle East, WorldCup | 3 CommentsA new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the rights of migrant domestic workers focused heavily on the Middle East, and for a good reason: most regional governments do not include domestic workers under the protection of its labor laws, …
Posted in Bahrain, Human Rights, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Migrant Workers, Qatar, Racism, Regional Issues, Saudi Arabia, Sexism, UAE | 2 CommentsBook of Law is the latest movie of Maziar Miri, the young, promising Iranian director. The story begins with an Iranian scholar, Rahman Tavana, traveling with his colleagues to Lebanon to meet a group of representatives of Lebanese NGOs. There …
Posted in Culture, Iran, Lebanon, Society | 3 CommentsOver the month of January, we at Migrant-Rights.org have covered cases of abuse against migrant workers in Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Qatar, the UAE, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Following our documentation of several cases of suicide and attempted suicide …
Posted in Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Migrant Workers, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | 2 CommentsAfter spending another year documenting abuses of migrant workers in the Middle East, it’s time that we look back at the most significant, influential and important stories that we’ve covered. 1. Death of Domestic Migrant Workers in Lebanon This story …
Posted in Bahrain, Gulf, Kuwait, Lebanon, Migrant Workers, UAE | 2 CommentsThe following is a translation on an article that appeared in the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat last week. The dreams of foreign maids in Lebanon turn into nightmares The rise of suicide rates to one case a week due to …
Posted in Lebanon, Migrant Workers | 1 CommentThe following is a listing solutions and measures meant to secure the fundamental rights of female migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. These proposals have been collected in reports, studies and press releases from Human Right Watch, the International Labour Organization …
Posted in Lebanon, Migrant Workers | Leave a comment60 years of the UNRWA history of directing and managing the disaster of the Palestinian refugees should be studied again in a different way than the hypocritical one of the UN !!! 60 years of the Palestinian misery that is …
Posted in General, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine | Tagged Palestine UNRWA refugee refugees zionism Britain British israel Nakba zionism ethnic cleansing | 3 Comments