UPDATES TO KAFALA
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June 22, 2020 | English
Is a revolution complete when deep-rooted racism (expressed through the Kafala system and beyond) is not eliminated? Would it still have been the same to visit Lebanon and walk in the jasmine scented streets without thinking of these Ethiopian women?
June 22, 2020 | English
Unpaid foreign domestic workers stranded in crisis-hit Lebanon.
June 21, 2020 | English
Maids have been dumped outside a Beirut embassy, amid an ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon, heightened by the coronavirus pandemic.
June 20, 2020 | French
Le ministère du Travail et le groupe de travail sur la réforme de la kafala, dirigé par l’OIT, mettent la touche finale à une réflexion conjointe qui a débuté en avril 2019.
June 19, 2020 | English
The woman was found hanging in her employer's home in Bekaa Valley's Tamnine al-Tahta village, amid concerns from human rights groups over the treatment of migrant workers in Lebanon.
June 19, 2020 | English
With quite a stable economy for many years, Lebanon was quite an attractive destination for low-paid contract domestic workers from Ghana, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, among many others.
June 19, 2020 | English
Ariwolo Olamide Temitope, a Nigerian lady who was barred from boarding an evacuation flight to Nigeria, has been found in a prison in Lebanon after three weeks of her location being unknown.
June 18, 2020 | English
Ethiopian domestic workers are being thrown onto the streets by their Lebanese employers, who can no longer afford to pay them.
June 16, 2020 | Arabic
A video by Tony Kanaan, in collaboration with Caritas Lebanon, that aims at shedding the light around the Kafala system in Lebanon.
June 16, 2020 | English
The economic and financial crisis in Lebanon is impacting the lives of all Lebanese and has brought severe economic hardship to many Lebanese households. It has also brought to light more clearly than ever before the precarious situation, in which many migrant domestic workers find themselves in Lebanon.