Why the recurrent suicide cases of migrant women workers?

As usual in Lebanon, the news of suicide incidents of two women migrant workers are treated in the local media lightly and briefly within the category of miscellaneous security news. For after that our website posted the cases of three suicide attempts during this year, local channels aired in less than one week news of 3 new cases of suicide and torture of migrant women domestic workers. The first news went like this: An Ethiopian MWDW was found hanging from a tree with a woolen scarf in the West Beqaa town of Mashghara. The second news which was mentioned in a number of websites, briefly referred to the case of an Ethiopian MWDW who threw herself from the 15th floor at her employer’s home in East Beirut suburb of Jdeideh. Furthermore, electronic portals posted the news of the burning to death of a Kenyan mother of two MWDW, Mari Kabuna Kamango, at her employer’s residence. Mari reportedly died after being transferred to Kenya last July. On this, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation LBCI stated that after investigating on the subject and confirmation by the Lebanese Consul to the African state, that the last incident has occurred in Jordan and not in Lebanon. (Al Diyar, August 4, 2016)

 

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