Report launch on Migrant Rights in Lebanon

The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, LAU

The Institute for Migration Studies, LAU and KAFA (Enough) Violence and Exploitation,

cordially invite you to the launching of two studies titled:


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
- Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, Dr. Dima Dabbous-Sensenig, Director

- KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation, Ms. Ghada Jabbour, Head of the Exploitation & Trafficking in Women Unit

- Presentation of the two studies

Place: The Lebanese American University (LAU) Beirut, Business Building-BB 903

Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Time: 3:30 p.m.

For more information call the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World 01 78 64 56 ext. 1275 or KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation 01 39 22 20-1

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Culture of Racism in Lebanon report launch

On the occasion of the “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”

COSV and Insan Association

In the presence of a representative of the EU Delegation to Lebanon

have the pleasure to invite you to a press conference

To launch the report “Culture of Racism in Lebanon” by Ms Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau, in the

frame of the “Multimedia Virtual Space for Human Rights” project, funded by the European Union and

implemented by COSV, Kafa, CLDH and PPM

And to shed the light on the discrimination and racism that migrant workers in Lebanon face on a daily

basis – which is part of Insan Association’s campaign in partnership with the Spanish NGO AIDA for

the rights of migrant workers in Lebanon funded by the Spanish Agency for Development and

Cooperation

The event will include a photo exhibition and a presentation from the Children of Insan School.

On Monday the 21st of March 2011 At 11 a.m.

at Insan Association Center

in Sin el Fil, Dahr el Jamal, Sector 1, Street 88

For confirmation or regrets:

Telefax: 01‐485237

Mobile: 03-463216

E-°©‐mail: insan@insanlb.org

or cosv_hr@hotmail.com

Event Agenda:

Presentation of the report “Culture of Racism in Lebanon”

The situation of migrant workers in Lebanon and the discrimination they face

Presentation by the children of Insan School

Photo exhibition by the photographer George Haddad and Journalist Aline Sara entitled “Bitter

Homes”

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Report: A Child Protection Assessment: Migrant Workers and their children in Lebanon

Terre des hommes Foundation Lausanne (TdhL) and Insan Association carried out the following needs assessment of migrant domestic workers and their children in various locations throughout Beirut, Lebanon, between August 2009 and October 2009. The research also focused on establishing and locating children of migrant workers and their family unit. Click here for more information about research.

Research Team:

Kristen Hope: Primary Researcher/Author

Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau: Primary Researcher/Author

Hassan Bahani: Research Manager/Author

Lala Arabian: Research Manager/Editor

Charles Nasrallah: Editor

Jason Squire: Author/Editor

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