UPDATES TO KAFALA
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October 5, 2020 | English
Lucie's lament helped to create a path home for herself and other women from Sierra Leone
October 4, 2020 | English
October 3, 2020 | English
A new investigation from Amnesty International has backed up previous reporting on the worsening, life-threatening treatment of Ethiopian migrants stranded in Saudi Arabia including prisoners who are chained in pairs, confined at all hours in a crowded detention center, forced to use an open floor as toilets, little medical care, beatings and several deaths.
October 3, 2020 | English
October 2, 2020 | English
Thousands of migrant workers from Africa are currently living in degrading conditions in detention centres in Arab countries. A human rights organisation has accused the Gulf States of racism that is "structured to perfection". By Bernd Dörries and Dunja Ramadan
October 1, 2020 | Arabic
"لدينا حالة لامرأة تعرضت للاغتصاب ولكن قنصلية بلادها طلبت منها البقاء في المنزل. لا تزال في منزل مغتصبها”!
العاملات المنزليات المهاجرات ضمن أكثر الفئات تضرراً من الأزمات المتتالية في لبنان… الإساءات تتراكم ولا نظام حماية
October 1, 2020 | English
Photographer Aline Deschamps shows Sierra Leonean workers from a place of dignity and power in her new project I Am Not Your Animal
October 1, 2020 | English
As Lebanon battles corrupt leadership and economic chaos, the women employed as domestic workers pay the highest price.
September 30, 2020 | English
The flights cost of evacuating 2,262 stranded Ghanaian domestic workers from Lebanon during the COVID-19 lockdown was $1,062,600, Mr Charles Owiredu, a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has said.
September 30, 2020 | English
Although making some positive strides in recent years, Lebanon is still behind some of its regional counterparts when it comes to women’s rights. Women in Lebanon still lack important protections against abuse and violence, personal status laws and representation under civil and religious law. Here are seven facts about women’s rights in Lebanon.