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MWDWs lay down on airport floor awaiting their sponsors
20-4-2018
In a special feature today, Al Akhbar newspaper shed light on a fact visible at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport where migrant women domestic workers cannot find decent seats and are forced to sit on the floor awaiting the arrival of their sponsors which might drag on for days sometimes. On the subject, Al Akhbar spoke to an Airport officer who pointed out that as many as three to four planes carrying over 100 MWDWs land daily at the airport. The workers, he said, sit on the floor because there are not enough seats to accommodate them, especially that the airport facility lacks waiting rooms equipped to receive passengers who are forced to wait indefinitely. The head of the Public Information Office at the General Security, Brigadier General Nabil Hanoun, revealed to Al Akhbar that the task of his department is limited to stamping passports and completing routine transactions, relinquishing the responsibility of finding places to seat an exceptionally large number of travelers. On the other hand, the Airport head, Fadi Hassan, denied having any details on what the newspaper described as ‘slave labor or trade’ in the ‘land of honey and milk”. (Al Akhbar, April 20, 2018)
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