There are over 300,000 Ethiopian women in Lebanon working as maids for Lebanese households across the country. Many are subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse that goes unpunished in Lebanon due to the institutionalized oppression enabled by the existence of the Kafala system which binds an employee to her Lebanese sponsor. The Kafala system is what facilitates the scourge. The horrific abuses meted out against Ethiopian maids in the country and the instability reigning across the country as a result of the ongoing Lebanese revolutionary protests, were slated to be primary agenda topics in the discussion.