New Age Bangladesh | 5 September 2018 The government has adopted the guidelines for sending workers to Lebanon.The three-page guides made it mandatory for local recruiting agencies to select the workers registered with the database of the Bureau of Manpow... read more
Nepal Times | 27 April 2018 Along with horror stories of abuse of female domestic workers, housemaids from Nepal here have a different worry – they cannot go back home for holidays because a Nepal government ban on female migrant workers would prevent t... read more
ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative, 24 June 2015 This working paper aims to shed light on the business models of labour recruiters that facilitate the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into domestic work in the Middle East, with a particular fo... read more
5 January 2015, Kafa (Enough) Violence & Exploitation, Lebanon Prepared by Kafa (Enough) Violence & Exploitation, Lebanon, this video is based on a report that examines the processes and practices pertaining to the recruitment of migrant domestic ... read more
26 November 2014, The Daily Star BEIRUT: A conference aimed at tackling conditions of migrant domestic workers, including risks of abuse by their employers, was held Wednesday, amid increasing cases of foreign housemaids committing suicide in Lebanon. Lab... read more
10 October 2014, The Daily Star BEIRUT: Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi Friday ordered the closure of two domestic worker recruitment agencies in south Lebanon for violating regulations. According to a ministry statement, Azzi issued an order to shut down one ... read more
9 September 2014, Albawaba.com Migrant worker recruitment agencies are making elaborate profits off the back of migrant domestic workers who continue to face extremely harsh labor and living conditions in Lebanon, a new report said. “The report found th... read more
Kafa (Enough) Violence Against Women, September 2014 On September 8, KAFA (Enough) Violence Against Women (Lebanon) released a report entitled “Dreams for Sale: The Exploitation of Domestic Workers from Recruitment in Nepal and Bangladesh to Working... read more
8 September 2014, The Daily Star Lebanon BEIRUT: Migrant worker recruitment agencies are making elaborate profits off the back of migrant domestic workers who continue to face extremely harsh labor and living conditions in Lebanon, a new report said. “T... read more
Insan Association, Lebanon – July, 2014 INTRODUCTION Years ago the issue of Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) in Lebanon began to surface in international media. This came as a result of efforts by civil society organizations, including Insan Associat... read more
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