Our aim is to alter the servant stereotype, established between an Asian/African person and a Lebanese person. We want to show a more creative, powerful, proud, self-reliant, and intelligent face to migrant workers, as business women and representative of rich and sophisticated cultures.

In support of migrant workers, several NGOs and individual activists will celebrate Labor Day in Lebanon by demanding migrant workers’ right for good working conditions, starting with the minimal right for at least one day off a week.

The Lebanese Government approved last year a unified contract for all migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, in addition, several Human Rights agreements, which are signed by Lebanon, and the Lebanese constitution supposedly protect human being in Lebanon from slavery and slavery like conditions. So far this has not prevented employers of migrant domestic workers from treating their employees as slaves.

Perhaps the most significant example would be the fact that these employees work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They are given a few hours of sleep, but even then they are on stand-by as employers reserve the right to wake them at any moment of the night for any reason imaginable.

Special thanks to  Kiki Bokassa for conceptualizing this campaign! We would also like to thank Hayeon Lee, Ali Fakhry, Nisreen Kaj and Rebecca Saade for making this campaign happen.

For more information on the campaign please contact Simba Russeau at: 24sevencampaign@gmail.com