0:00 Intro
2:27 Defamation, Interrogation & Detainment
37:43 IMF Package & Human Rights
45:07 'Kafala' (Sponsorship) System
1:01:59 Refugees & Human Rights
We're back with Aya Majzoub for Episode 180 of The Beirut Banyan.
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We discuss several topics pertaining to human rights issues in Lebanon including recent interrogations and detainment vis-a-vis 'anti-defamation' and 'insult laws'; IMF negotiations and shielding disenfranchised groups from further economic pain through potential austerity measures; demands to abolish the 'kafala' / sponsorship system for domestic / migrant workers; and the Palestinian and Syrian refugee populations' vulnerability given the wider economic crisis.
Aya Majzoub is a Lebanon and Bahrain researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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Music by Marc Codsi. Graphics by Sara Tarhini.
