Politics of Freedom

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The police and courts are complicit in the abuse of domestic migrant workers routinely failed with Lebanese labor law, said a leading international human rights group Thursday. Not a single study of the file that produced charges against employers who have locked workers inside the home, confiscated their passports and denied them food.


In May 2009, the Lebanese Center for Human Rights interviews with 82 female migrant workers in Tripoli prison. Legal deficiencies led to an average of 24 months of delays in criminal cases complaints against employers, increasing to up to 54 months for civil cases. Philippine Ambassador to Lebanon Gilberto G.B. Asuque expressed confidence in the Lebanese system to reform labor laws and protects MDWs of all nationalities.

Human Rights Watch has received a $ 100 000 donation from the billionaire currency speculator and philanthropist George Soros. Dipendra's observation is supported by Dr Farish Noor, a political scientist at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, who emphasized that freedom of speech only becomes a problem when it is politicized. On the other hand, freedom of speech and kicking in the voices of the Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia and Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali.