Yet more new procedures to mitigate the exploitation of migrant domestic workers

The Minister of Labor, Sajaan Azzi, confirmed in an interview with An Nahar newspaper, the ‎presence of “human rights violation and a mafia for recruiting migrant women domestic workers ‎that has wider international roots.” Azzi claimed that exploitation begins with the source country, ‎along with corrupt personnel of embassies of those countries in Lebanon, and is chiefly ‎accountable for human trafficking crimes and for the violations in the rights of MWDWs. Azzi ‎disclosed that he will soon issue a new administrative procedures for regulating the work of ‎recruiting agencies, that will apply to men workers as well. The new procedures, he explained, are ‎intended to fight human trafficking on the one hand, and “protect the rights of household ‎employers that have been subject to fraud, while safeguarding the right of the domestic worker ‎to be treated with dignity and humanity.”(An Nahar, November 18, 2015‎‏(‏