17 June – Webinar: Migration, Remittances and Possible Return of Ethiopian Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Webinar on Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers (MDW) in Lebanon, with a focus on the National Legal Framework and the tenacity of the kafala system, a qualitative analysis of different migrant DW profiles and trajectories and their remittance behaviour, and an updated reflection on the impact of the present financial crisis and Covid-19 for domestic female labour migrations in Lebanon.

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4-PxGRjyS0Su0be_tjNSBQ

Opening
Alessandro Salimei
CELIM NGO

Presentation of the Lebanon Study
Karim El Mufti
Director of the Human Rights Legal Clinic, Law Faculty,
La Sagesse University & Senior Researcher in Human Rights

Discussants

Zeina Mezher
ILO Regional Office Beirut

Zeina Mohanna
Professor at the American University of Beirut
& Head of the MDWs Program at Amel Association

Tigiste Chemales
Representative of the Ethiopian female community in Lebanon

Ali El Amine
Head of SORAL (Syndicate of Recruitment Agencies in Lebanon)

Moderator:
Anna Ferro and Lorenzo Coslovi
CeSPI