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    Man Who Put Domestic Worker ‘For Sale’ on Facebook Just Got Arrested

    By Souad LazkaniApril 23, 2020Updated:April 28, 2021
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    After a man in Beirut put a Nigerian housekeeper for sale on Facebook, the Ministry of Labor issued a circular reminding people who employ foreign domestic workers that it’s illegal to post advertisements relevant to domestic workers on social media.

    Advertising people for the purpose of trade of any form on social media is basically human trafficking online. The ministry warned that this act is punishable under Lebanese law.

    Hence, the man has been arrested and taken in for investigation, reports the NNA.

    The United Nations defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labor or sexual exploitation.

    UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, 

    The man’s post stirred outrage among Lebanese and Africans alike and was met with disgust from the public.

    With the price tag of $1,000, the post read, “African domestic worker from Nigeria for sale with new residency permit and complete legal documents. She’s 30 years old, she’s very active and very clean.”

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B_NbRDaHh4H/?utm_source=ig_embed

    Renee Abi Saad was the first to call him out, reporting him to the Nigerian Embassy in Lebanon. Later, a Nigerian blogger and social media influencer named Linda Ikeji who has over 5 million followers on Instagram also wrote about the post on her blog.

    The Ministry of Labor responded by banning social media ads for domestic workers and investigating the situation.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B9eFkMjldpD/

    While being sold on social media is a demeaning and repulsive blatant form of human trafficking, such dreadful crime has been ongoing in Lebanon on the sly, with networks operating between African countries and Lebanon.

    The recent case of the Nigerian teacher revealed that as of January, more than 1000 Nigerian girls were trafficked into Lebanon.

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    Human trafficking is not the only form of crime endured by domestic workers. Some who are legally employed suffer domestic abuse and violence with no legal protection and no way out due to the Kafala system.

    While many Lebanese activists and organizations have been calling on the government to end the Kafala system, it is as important that awareness campaigns target the society on the must to treat domestic helpers humanly and fairly.

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    Violence in all its forms towards a human being is unacceptable, if not by law then by moral and human values, which is more important.

    Employers must realize that mistreating their domestic workers is also teaching abuse and bad values to their children at home. It does impact the children and their perceptions of human interaction, and how they will treat others in life.

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    Editor’s Note: April 28th, 2020. According to new information reported by Al-Arabia, the person behind the attempt to sell the Nigerian houseworker on FB is not Lebanese but a Syrian national allegedly enrolled at a university in Tayouneh, Beirut.

    The information was revealed by the Nigerian Embassy in Beirut to the Lebanese authorities who rushed to track him down and arrested him.

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