Thus, in order to protect women working in this dangerous business, we need to ensure their safety by amending relevant parts of the General Security's terms and conditions of a residence permit for "female artists" into Lebanon. A revision to these laws would decrease human trafficking and ensure basic humanitarian rights to foreign s*x workers in Lebanon. DID YOU KNOW...
> A foreign woman enter
ing Lebanon to work as a pr******te must obtain an artist visa sponsored by a night club owner who assumes full responsibility of her every move.
> Upon arriving to work in Lebanon, pr******tes are stripped of all their travel documents by the club owners, leaving them defenseless in the face of oppression.
> They can only live in hotels or authorized houses under the supervision of night club owners.
> As part of the contract included in the artist visa, the women must remain locked in their residences between 5 am and 1 pm and then must work in the night club from 10 pm to 5 am. Their "free time" from 1 pm to 8 pm is generally used to go on "dates" with customers who have purchased them.
> If caught outside at the wrong time or if caught outside unaccompanied by a night club owner or representative, the women are arrested and usually deported. WHAT TO DO...
> General Security laws limiting the freedom of movement of women holding artist visas and allowing the confiscation of passport and other identity documents by club owners should be prohibited.
> The procedure used to obtain an artist visa should be modified so that women can change employers freely.
> Lastly, Lebanon's penal code (Articles 523, 526, 527) should be revised to criminalize all forms of human trafficking.
