Update 1/6/18 The Halima Documentary is Released Halima was a slave for Ibtissam Saade for 10 whole years – not a single phone call to her husband and three young daughters. No money remitted home. Constant physical and verbal abuse. Ibtissam and her vicious children maintained to This Is Lebanon …

See the full story here: https://eleanore-couture-free-lensa-now.com/about Or continue reading: Lensa, aged 20, Ethiopian, came to Lebanon last July to work for a family who have a well-known haute couture business. She joined two other workers already with the family, one who had not been there for long and the other …

My Story by Juli Lim I arrived in Lebanon January 15, 2014 at midnight. My male employer picked me up at the airport and in the morning even though I don’t have good sleep I started to work. My employers were a couple with three children aged 20,18 and 17 …

“We have heard, with a great deal of relief, that Joe Semaan has been taken into custody for investigation. Thank you to the brave women who came forward to report the abuse. It’s unlikely, given the infinite constraints of the sponsorship system on domestic workers and the treatment they usually …

I would like to share about a Lebanese man that is pretending to be a policeman and catching foreigners like Filipinos, Ethiopians, Sri Lankans and Bangladeshi, especially those who don’t have documents. He has a white colored jeep but I don’t have the plate number. His name is Joe Semaan …