The sponsorship system’s flaws in Lebanon: Domestic workers suffer from persecution || Newspapers (Arabic)

On the third of August, Rinka Maghar, an Ethiopian domestic worker, committed suicide which awakened the tragedy of domestic workers in Lebanon again without leading to any legal movement or change regarding this issue. The main cause behind leaving the domestic workers in Lebanon without a legal umbrella that protects them is their exclusion from the Lebanese Labor Law, issued in 1946.
Facing the reality which foreign domestic workers live in Lebanon is linked to more than one element. In order to solve this problem, we need to work on several levels, according to the opinion of the media coordinator of the «Exploitation and Trafficking of Women» program at “Kafa”, Maya Ammar. And first, through the abolition of the sponsorship system and the creation of an alternative immigration system, in addition to finding a fair system which governs the relationship between the applicant and the domestic worker, so that the operation will not turn to a human trafficking one.

Original text in Arabic: Al-Hayat