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The government condemned on Friday the abuse of an Ethiopian domestic worker and called for an investigation to refer the culprits to justice, Information Minister Walid al-Daouq announced.
“ The cabinet denounced the violence against the Ethiopian maid in public and called for a probe to refer the suspects to the competent judiciary to take the necessary legal measures against them,” al-Daouq said following a session held at Baabda Palace.
The condemnation came after LBC TV obtained mobile phone footage of a man hitting the woman and pulling her hair under the gaze of bystanders outside the Ethiopian consulate in Beirut.
While the reasons of the incident were not clear, it brought back to the forefront of discussions the widespread abuse and sometimes the rape of domestic workers.
The labor ministry also condemned the attack, saying it launched an investigation as soon as it received a copy of the video from LBC.
The ministry’ s statement said it also contacted the justice ministry to take the necessary legal measures against the culprits.
Many of the estimated 200,000 foreign domestic workers in Lebanon hail from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Ethiopia.
Although the Lebanese government issued a decree in 2009 that requires employers to abide by a set of rules including paying workers their salary in full at the end of each month and giving them one day off a week, advocacy groups say few employers respect these conditions.
In rare cases in the past few years, an employer was sentenced to 15 days in jail for repeatedly beating a Filipina worker and another sentenced to one month for abusing a Sri Lankan maid and confining her to the house.
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BEIRUT: The government has called for a probe into a video showing an Ethiopian domestic worker being beaten by a Lebanese man outside her country’ s consulate.
Ethiopia’ s consul general told The Daily Star Friday that there are no security personnel at the consulate despite repeated appeals to the Lebanese authorities.
A video released by LBCI Thursday shows a woman moaning as a man beats her and tries to force her into a car. Another man helps push the woman into the car, as others stand nearby. LBCI said the incident took place outside the Ethiopian consulate in Badaro. The video blurs the faces of all people except for that of the woman, but a Friday night LBC report identified the man as Ali Mahfouz.
Asaminew Debelie Bonssa, Ethiopia’ s consul general in Lebanon, told The Daily Star that a Lebanese man brought an Ethiopian domestic worker into the consulate two weeks ago, saying she was sick. Bonssa said he advised the man to take her to the hospital for treatment. “ From outside I heard voices,” he said, and he called the police.
Bonssa said he spoke to the woman but “ the way they were handling her was not positive” and she did not appear to understand him.
Bonssa added that the police took the woman to Psychiatrique de la Croix Hospital, known as Deir al-Salib, where she is now.
The consul said he was unaware as to whether the police witnessed the violence, but said they did see the car, adding that he hoped the perpetrator of the incident that is “ really sad for us” is apprehended and brought to justice.
The consul said that while the Lebanese authorities previously assigned one security guard for the building, he was removed three years ago – during the 2009 parliamentary elections, the consul was told it was a temporary step.
“ We were advised to just wait for some time, then when the election was over we requested [a new guard and] they said they will replace him.” A new guard was never provided, he said.
He added that he had contacted the Interior and Foreign Affairs ministries about the problem, and “ we were advised later by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the country is peaceful and there is no need for security personnel [at the consulate].”
Bonssa said he explained to authorities that the consulate “ is the place where employers and employees have social problems. We do arbitration, we settle many problems.” He said that occasionally “ there are people who are harsh and treat them [workers] poorly.” He was told that in these cases, he should call the police, but that after multiple requests, “ we became frustrated and for the sake of relations between the two countries [Lebanon and Ethiopia], I didn’ t report this problem.”
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel denied that his ministry had received a letter from the consulate regarding security at the consulate’ s gate, but said such a presence could not stop such problems. “ Such an incident could take place anywhere,” he said. “ It could happen on any street and it could happen inside homes. Should we place security forces in everyone’ s homes?”
Charbel told The Daily Star that he has “ tasked the security forces to carry out an investigation to find out who is behind this incident,” which he called a “ horrible scene” that reflects badly on Lebanon’ s image. He added that both the woman and the Ethiopian Consulate should file civil suits against the abusers.
“ Without that lawsuit, the man could just walk free after spending several days in detention,” he said.
In a Friday evening report on LBC, Mahfouz said the woman, who was in his employ, had tried to commit suicide three times – by throwing herself in front of a car, drinking cleaning fluid, and jumping off a balcony – and this is why he had taken her to the consulate.
After Cabinet was adjourned Friday, Information Minister Walid Daouk said that “ the Cabinet condemned the violence against the Ethiopian domestic worker in public and asked for an investigation into this matter.”
He also asked for “ those that did this to be turned over to the concerned judicial authority, which should take legal measures against them.”
Telecommunications Minister Nicholas Sehnaoui tweeted that “ we should all come to the defense of the poor Ethiopian girl, victim of this abuse. Actions like these dishonor our country. I am ashamed.”
Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi said Friday that the Justice and Labor ministries will have an emergency meeting Monday on the issue, and added that the authorities have contacted the woman’ s employment agency and will question Mahfouz.
Ali Fakhry of the Anti-Racism Movement, who met with Bonssa Friday, told The Daily Star that activists plan to keep the pressure on the government. “ The Lebanese government and the [Ethiopian] general consul said they want to follow up, and we will have to put some pressure [on them] to make sure they really follow up on the case,” he said.
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በጣም የሚገርመው ..ይችን እህታችን ወደ Psychiatrique de la Croix Hospital ወይም The Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross ማለት ይመስለኛል ነው የወሰዷት ...ያ ደግሞ የእብዶች ሆስፒታል እንደማለት ነው ..ግን ለምን ወደዚያ ወሰዷት In a Friday evening report on LBC, Mahfouz said the woman, who was in his employ, had tried to commit suicide three times – by throwing herself in front of a car, drinking cleaning fluid, and jumping off a balcony – and this is why he had taken her to the consulate.
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Housemaid delivers stillborn baby on way to exit country
Published Sunday, March 11, 2012
An Ethiopian housemaid who was about to deliver told her employers in Kuwait she no longer wanted to work in the emirate and decided to return home. On the way to the airport, she aborted a dead infant.
Her employer told police she had just finished visa procedures for the maid when she told her she wanted to return home.
“ I tried to persuade her to stay but she insisted on going back to Erhiopia,” the woman said, quoted by Alanba daily.
“ I asked the driver to take her to the airport but he later told me she delivered a stillborn baby in the car.”
Police arrested the maid and are expected to deport her since she had an illegitimate relationship outside Kuwait. The paper said the maid wanted to deliver in Ethiopia as she realized having a baby outside marriage is a crime in the Gulf emirate.
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