Housekeepers in Lebanon: the allegation to slavery

Nivo Ramanantsolofo was 23 years old. Her Lebanese saga was a short song, a sad ending song. A coffin of hers recovered her country, a couple of months after her death in a country in which she experienced the taste of hell. This death is obviously not the first one, only one more brick in the wall, one more name in the dark list apparently overstretching the government. The HAT population minister displayed anger in Ivato beside the victim’s family, far from enough to hide her impotence. « Sending employees in Lebanon must absolutely stop », she protested.  

The business is officially suspended until further notice. So decided the ministry for labor and social laws in order to reassert the respect of Malagasy workers’ rights in Lebanon. The HAT Population minister, Nadine Ramaroson, roared after some investment agencies still daring to press the government to lift the ban on the recruitment of Malagasy workers. « A lot of agencies dared to ask the government’s chief to let this trade of human being resume, although it is condemned by the international norms « , she berated.  

The HAT minister directly attacked those investment agencies allegedly playing a guilty role in those dramas by keeping on sending young women in spite of the ticking ill treatment and fatality counter. Nadine Ramaroson wondered whether these people « could still dare saying that Malagasy blood is running into them « . In spite of a displayed firmness, the minister can nothing else but the HAT governmental decision’s lack of efficiency.  Some agencies are skirting around the ban by sending young women through a neighboring island in the Indian Ocean.   

Nivo Ramanantsolofo left in September 2008 in spite of her mother’s reluctance. A new born baby’s young mom has been convinced by an agency’s head hunter. « By the first time, I forbad her to go but this person kept on convincing her to leave, I’ve been told of her departure only one day prior to her flight » told her mother. She equally told  that her daughter Nivo gave her no option left as presenting a working contract to be completed, be it for the sake of escape heavy damages .  

 Nivo Ramanatsolofo contacted her mother in April 2010 for the last time. She was weeping instead of being joyful as usual when calling her family. Her mother was convinced that the young woman was undergoing serious ill treatment. Nivo’s body had been examined after the death. The official cause of the death is a congenital aneurysm. The family does not buy the theory of a sudden illness able to take away one of their owns at 23. Series of unexpected bruises noticed on the victim’s face are only emphasizing doubts.