Lebanon
Simba Russeau
IRIN News Agency(07/22/2008)
Simba Russeau is a Beirut based multi-media storyteller. Influenced by the reality of surviving 7 years, on the streets, she taught herself photography, video journalism, radio and print reporting as a weapon to empower her own voice. In 2002, Simba covered her first foreign assignment in East Timor. Since then she has reported from South Korea, Philippines, Haiti, Japan, the US and Lebanon.
Millions of migrant workers worldwide live and work in conditions of enslavement. Unemployment and household poverty, which have significantly affected developing countries, pressured these workers to find jobs abroad. Many children of domestic workers face marginalization because of their parents' social status. Although migrant workers contribute billions of dollars in cash and services, policymakers continue to disregard their contributions and their vulnerability. According to articles 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 13 and 24, migrant workers in Lebanon and their children are entitled to residency, education, equality before the law, rest and leisure and to all basic rights as human beings.
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