Following Ain Najem murder Azzi urges associations to stop defending ‎foreign‏ ‏domestic workers (!?)‎

After the crime which the Metn town of Ain Najem witnessed last ‎Thursday, and in which a foreign domestic worker killed her employer, ‎Natali Michel Salban, Labor Minister Sajaan Azzi criticized what he ‎described over-zealous associations for defending the rights of migrant ‎women domestic workers saying that these murders and other similar ‎acts should rather dissuade these associations. Speaking to Al ‎Jumhouriya newspaper, Azzi maintained that violence against families of ‎Lebanese employers happen daily adding that “MWDW are not always ‎victims or woman employer always the bad person”. The Minister also ‎denied that MWDW are being systematically exposed to abuse. And in a ‎surprising statement that contradicted earlier ones, he went on to say: “If ‎true, (the abuse), they would not come in large numbers to work in the ‎country even when their own governments prevent them from doing so”, ‎while concluding that cases of abuse are exceptions and not the norm. ‎‎(Al Akhbar, December 5, 2015)‎