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Meseret, Ethiopian migrant domestic worker in Lebanon

Thursday 8th October, Beirut International human rights NGO Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) has launched a ground-breaking slavery case in Lebanon. LAW represents Meseret, a 38-year-old migrant domestic worker who was kept as a slave in a Beirut apartment for seven years until 2019. She was locked inside the home without payment and subject to serious abuse and neglect. “Whenever I asked about my salary, my employer beat me,” Meseret says, now from her home in Ethiopia. Today, LAW has filed a case on her behalf in the Lebanese Criminal Court...

The Alliance for Empowering Partnership (A4EP) celebrates with pride the achievements of local heroes. On World Humanitarian Day 2020, we pay tribute to the many local heroes in the many local organisations that responded quickly, and often at great personal risk, to the impacts of COVID-19 and the lockdown measures to control its spread.

غاب السعيد وظل العقل في ابداعاته وكلماته وعباراته السابحة في عالم التألق والتميز والانبهار الخلقي..رحل سعيد عقل بالجسد تاركاً لمساته الخالدة كأرز لبنان الشامخ أبدا وحلمه بلبنان المقدس

رسالة التحالف من أجل تمكين الشراكات لرعاة الصفقة الكبرى من أجل ترسيخ مبدأ محليّة العمل الإنساني.

The Alliance for Empowered Partnerships' letter to Grand Bargain sherpas, ahead of the next annual meeting of Grand Bargain on 24-25 June 2020, with recommendations to deliver outcomes in spite of absence of local actors in the meeting.