UPDATES TO KAFALA
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January 27, 2021 | English
Many of the Filipina women we interviewed across Asia, Europe and the Middle East lost jobs or had salaries cut since the pandemic – others were subjected to physical abuse.
January 26, 2021 | English
The United Arab Emirates is a global epicenter for human trafficking, an awful reality now made significantly worse by the new arrival of thousands of Israeli sex tourists.
January 25, 2021 | English
The Saudi General Authority for Statistics revealed more than 250,000 foreign workers left the kingdom in a period of three months.
January 22, 2021 | English
This Is Lebanon, a registered NGO, has been exposing Lebanese residents that are taking advantage of the unfair Kafala system, and, most recently, they are exposing those refusing to pay their workers their salaries ever since the country’s local currency began dwindling.
January 22, 2021 | English
On Tuesday the 19th January, 2021 at the ongoing 37th Session of the Universal Periodic Review, the Deputy Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, His Excellency, Samuel U.B. Saffa Esq, has called on the Lebanon Government to tackle the menace of children in armed violence, women’s rights, among other things.
January 22, 2021 | English
The glittering city-states of the Persian Gulf fit the classicist Moses Finley’s criteria of genuine slave societies
January 21, 2021 | English
After reviewing Lebanon’s Universal Periodical Review (UPR) created by the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, January 18th, Amnesty International urged Lebanon to take certain Human Rights violations into consideration.
January 21, 2021 | English
In Lebanon, women from African countries who work as maids are often abused, raped, and essentially treated like slaves by their employers. Under a sponsorship system called kafala, in which maids are legally tied to the people who hire them, this abuse goes unpunished and under-reported.
January 21, 2021 | English
As students and graduates of the University of Oxford we are saddened and disappointed to see the continual cheapening and destruction of Black lives worldwide [...] and in Lebanon where human trafficking is still ongoing. 🇱🇧
The killing of George Floyd brought to the surface the reality of what’s also happening behind closed doors and Lebanon and Oxford are not immune to it.
January 20, 2021 | French
La situation des droits de l'Homme au Liban était qualifiée de moyenne par rapport au monde arabe depuis son indépendance en 1943 et jusqu'au. Collier Pendentif Carte de Couleur Or pendentifs Collier Femmes Hommes Carte Bijoux libanais Cadeau de fête d'anniversaire de Noël pour la fête des mères. Un homme étranger qui épouse une Libanaise ne peut pas non plus obtenir la nationalité libanaise, alors qu'une femme étrangère qui épouse Ces hommes politiques, seigneurs de la guerre civile (1975-1991) qui règnent encore sur le Liban ont construit leur pouvoir sur le clientélisme Patron de Pharaon Holding, député et ancien 1976, la guerre du Liban rapproche le jeune Libanais de la France. Après un bac C Takieddine : 3e mise en examen pour l'homme d'affaires libanais. Le . Suivre. il y a 8 ans