{"id":60975,"date":"2020-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/60975\/another-90-migrant-workers-repatriated-after-suffering-exploitation-and-abuse-under-kafala"},"modified":"2020-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"another-90-migrant-workers-repatriated-after-suffering-exploitation-and-abuse-under-kafala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/60975\/another-90-migrant-workers-repatriated-after-suffering-exploitation-and-abuse-under-kafala\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 90 Migrant Workers Repatriated After Suffering Exploitation And Abuse Under Kafala"},"content":{"rendered":"Some good news on this rainy Thursday morning.<br \/>  <br \/>  Another 90 domestic migrant workers have landed home in Ethiopia this morning after leaving Lebanon. The women had various reasons for leaving, some including abuse, abandonment in front of the embassy, and other horrifying incidents that took place under the kafala system. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another 90 of our sisters landed in Ethiopia this morning, after Egna Legna Besidet covered all travel costs. Among them, victims of the Beirut blast and domestic workers abandoned in the streets by employers. With these 90, total number of sisters repatriated stands at 306. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a5yyhkB14D\">pic.twitter.com\/a5yyhkB14D<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Egna Legna Besidet \u12a5\u129b \u1208\u129b \u1260\u1235\u12f0\u1275 (@EgnaLegnaDWU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EgnaLegnaDWU\/status\/1323990622785609730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Travel expenses were covered by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/59774\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Egna Legna Besidet<\/a>, a Lebanon-based Ethiopian migrants\u2019 rights organization, and the International Organization for Migration.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Between Oct 13th &#038; Oct 21, we booked tickets for and repatriated 13 of our sisters to Ethiopia and Sierra Leone. We are grateful for your continued support and so are our sisters, some of whom were injured in the Beirut blast as their nightmare in Lebanon has come to an end. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F1F340sU0z\">pic.twitter.com\/F1F340sU0z<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Egna Legna Besidet   (@EgnaLegnaDWU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EgnaLegnaDWU\/status\/1319346409347424257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  This was made possible with the help of many heroes who donated to the fundraiser launched by Egna Legna Besidet to provide victims of the kafala system with food, medicine, and other basic necessities. Back in September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/60708\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">94 Ethiopian women were also taken back home<\/a> after enduring similar ordeals.<br \/>  <br \/>  Unfortunately, thousands of domestic workers have been denied the right to freedom of association, leaving them vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.<br \/>  <br \/>  These women deserve the best, and they have all our support.\u00a0","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good news on this rainy Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":434247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-60975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[110],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast 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