Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Slave Britain, Slave Lebanon

As the United Kingdom prepares to commemorate two hundred years since the abolition of the slave trade, an exhibition at St Paul's Cathedral in London shows how human trafficking is a devastasting reality for thousands of human beings even today.
On the exhibition website you can see a gallery of Karen Robinson's portraits and the related horrific tales of women forced into sex trade or employed as housemaids in conditions close to slavery.

I wonder if a similar exhibition could take place in Lebanon. I guess a few Eritrean and Srilankan maids and some Ukrainian sex workers could tell similar stories, if only they could. But maybe it's more important to discuss how many Sunni and Shi'a ministers there will be in the future cabinet.

1 Comments:

Blogger Pep said...

definitely agree!
it could be very interesting to deepen the matter...
I just heard something about it from lebanese friends and got stucked!

cheers mate, hope you're doing well
-pep-

Wed Feb 21, 11:47:00 AM UTC  

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