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‘Dreams for Sale’: an inside look into the domestic worker life in Lebanon

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9 September 2014, Albawaba.com Migrant worker recruitment agencies are making elaborate profits off the back of migrant domestic workers who continue to face extremely harsh labor and living conditions in Lebanon, a new report said. “The report found that those migrant domestic workers interviewed as part of this study are victims of practices that are […]

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“Dreams for Sale: The Exploitation of Domestic Workers from Recruitment in Nepal and Bangladesh to Working in Lebanon

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Kafa (Enough) Violence Against Women, September 2014 On September 8, KAFA (Enough) Violence Against Women (Lebanon) released a report entitled “Dreams for Sale: The Exploitation of Domestic Workers from Recruitment in Nepal and Bangladesh to Working in Lebanon.” This report examines the processes and practices pertaining to the recruitment of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) from

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Report on the Status of Migrant Workers in Canada 2011

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UFCW Canada, 2011 This annual Report was compiled [by UFCW Canada] to educate about the draconian federal Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) and the genuine human cost that continues to scar Canada’s reputation internationally. More importantly, the TFWP continues to be a dark, painful and dreary road wrought with abuse, exploitation and utter lack of

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Alleged forced migrant labor trafficking investigated in California forests

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4 August 2014, News10ABC.net Thousands of miles from home, stained with toxic chemicals and threatened with guns, workers say they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to. The migrant workers, all from Mexico, were in a foreign country and they say their passports had been confiscated by company supervisors. That’s part of a story told

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