Honorary Consulate of the Gambia in Beirut
| Address | Behind Embassy of Iran, opposite to Yemen Embassy Bir Hassan Beirut Lebanon |
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| Phone | local: international: |
Honorary Consulate of the Gambia in Beirut | Address | Behind Embassy of Iran, opposite to Yemen Embassy Bir Hassan Beirut Lebanon |
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| Phone | local: international: |
Comments on this Honorary Consulate
It has come to my and people’s attention that you’re denying help regarding the Gambian women in Lebanon pleading to be able to go back home. The only advice you have given these women, who have nothing, is to prostitute themselves in order to get the money for the tickets home. This is a brutal discrimination of human rights. They deserve your help so they can return home again to their families. They can not ask their families to give them the money since they came to Lebanon to help support them financially being promised work and pay. I urge you to help them on the behalf of basic human rights. Human rights should not be limited to certain parts of the world. This system is deeply problematic and exploitative and I demand you to take a stand against it. These are human lives. Someones child, parent or sibling.
Urgent request! The situation in Lebanon is forcing Gambian women and girls to the streets without food, water and shelter. Their passport has been confiscated (which they paid for and belongs to them). Due to the pandemic they are higly at risk with no protection or right to healt care in Lebanon. Bring our girls home!
Mr Ambassador
Bring Back Our Girls
As the consulate it is your duty to give your Gambian countrymen refuge, to protect them, and to bring them back home to their families in times of emergency. How can you be so evil, so corrupt of heart and spirit, as to allow these women to suffer unspeakable violence and do nothing? You do not lack the power to change their lives, you lack the will. We urge you to bring them all back to their home immediately. The whole world is watching.
You are showing the world that you Will abandon you people and allow your people to be slaves in other countries.
Bring your people home now.
Please help the Gambian migrant workers in Lebanon. They want to travel back home. Use your power and help them travel back to Gambia safely. Stop supporting modern day slavery.
It's your job and responsibility to help domestic workers in Lebanon. Make sure they're safely home because that's where they want to be!
These are human beings who left their families and safety in order to support said families and themselves, and were instead met with inhumane living conditions. Help them home to their families and safety. It is your duty to do so. If you claim otherwise you clearly do not have any sense of humanity and a horrible lack of empathy.
As the Gambian consulate you have a responsibility and obligation to help these women and it is your duty to make sure that they get back home safe. I can’t believe that you’re telling the girls to prostitute themselves to buy a ticket. This is so inhumane. These women are in need of your help! For Charity is the master key!
The duty of the Gambian embassy, is to support these human beings and help them return to their home countries. Don’t let the Kafala system control your human morals.
I have seen the videos circulating online of Gambian domestic workers in Lebanon whom are living in inhuman conditions and are being mistreated and denied any support from the Gambian Consulate in Beirut. The situation is absolutely lamentable, these women are only asking to be repatriated but instead they are encountering humiliation and dehumanisation from whom are supposed to help and protect them.
Please, comply with your duties and help these women return home safely.
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