Posted By
Najib
Oct 17, 2013 09:59
According to this report, 29.8 million people live in modern slavery globally, out of which nearly 4000 in Lebanon. Honestly speaking, I am not sure how accurate this report is as it is estimated that Lebanese families employ more than 200,000 migrant domestic workers mainly from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and the Philippines and the way of recruiting these workers can be best described as Lebanon's Polished Version Of Modern Slavery. You can check out the…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 17, 2013 07:58
Downtown Beirut by Michaelallangrant, on Flickr Condé Nast Traveler announced the winners of its 26th annual Readers' Choice Awards two days ago and Beirut made it as one of the World's best cities. It's quite surprising to be honest to see Beirut on that list, specially after the past two years we had and the ongoing Syrian war. Let's hope things will get better in Lebanon this year so we could improve on that ranking.…
Beirut
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Lebanon
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Information
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Animals & Wildlife
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Lebanon
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Humor
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Information
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Lebanon
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