DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO SWITZERLAND CALLS FOR ABOLISHMENT OF KAFALA SYSTEM IN LEBANON

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.

Sierra Leone recommended to the Government of Lebanon to strengthen the implementation of the national plan of action to prevent and address the involvement of children in armed violence, amend the nationality law to allow women to transfer their nationality to their children and abolish the kafala system and include domestic workers in their labour laws among other things.

It should be noted that “the kafala” is monitoring or sponsorship mechanism established between migrant workers and their sponsors, or kafeel.
It is a system common in most Gulf States. By this system, the State grants permit to its citizens and companies to recruit or employ foreign labourers or migrant workers.

English | January 22, 2021

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