Launch of studies on migrant domestic workers

March 30, 2011 3:30 PM
Business Building, Room 903, Beirut campus

LAU’s Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Institute for Migration Studies, and KAFA (Enough) Violence and Exploitation are launching the following two studies:

1. Trafficking of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon: A Legal Analysis
   By Kathleen Hamill, Lawyer and Activist
2. An Exploratory Study of Psychoanalytic and Social Factors in the Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers by Female Employers in Lebanon
   By Ray Jureidini, Professor, LAU

These reports are part of the “Multimedia Virtual Space for Human Rights” project, funded by the European Union and implemented by COSV, KAFA, CLDH and PPM.
Program:

• Dr. Dima Dabbous-Sensenig, IWSAW Director, LAU
• Ms. Ghada Jabbour, Head of the Exploitation and Trafficking in Women Unit, KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation