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Request for info: Seeking funding ideas for work focussing on the protection needs of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

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Voices International ( http://www.voicesinternational.org.au/ ) is 
seeking funding for our work focussing on the protection needs of 
domestic migrant workers in Lebanon who are vulnerable for various 
reasons and face challenges to effectively seek their rights as workers 
and as human beings.

We are looking for all possible ways to fund this important work and 
would appreciate any leads from the forced migration online community. 
In particular, we'd be happy to hear of any philinthropic organisations 
or other funders who are known to have an interest in this area.

The migration of people for economic opportunities is a global 
phenomenon.  However, often overlooked from international and national 
laws are people that migrate to foreign countries to work as domestic 
migrant workers. The issue of migrant domestic workers is particularly 
important throughout the Middle East including Lebanon due to the large 
numbers of these workers. Historically these women and less often men 
have arrived from the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia. New data is 
however suggesting that in the last decade domestic migrant workers have 
increasingly started coming from smaller Asian and African countries 
like Bangladesh, Nepal, Madagascar and west African nations.

The more than 200,000 estimated migrant workers in Lebanon face acute 
protection needs including:

- Express exclusion from basic protection offered under the domestic 
labour law.
- Lack of effective government implementation and proper monitoring of 
existing practices.
- Dependence on the sponsorship ‘kafala’ system means that their legal 
status is closely tied to their employers.
- Lack of government regulation and control of the vast numbers of 
employment agencies that bring these workers into Lebanon can lead to 
exploitation.
- Restrictive immigration procedures mean that many workers who leave 
their employers due to ill treatment and abuse can end up languishing in 
detention waiting deportation.
- Negative stereotypes about domestic work and the perception amongst 
employers of the status of their live-in workers often leads to poor 
treatment and exploitation of these workers.
- Limited means to access to justice and effective redress for 
violations of their rights and exploitation.

Voices International (VI) is an international protection NGO with the 
global mandate ‘everyone deserves to be heard’.  VI was registered in 
Australia in early 2010 and opened its first office in Lebanon in April 
2010. VI aims to help those people who are otherwise marginalised to 
have a voice and the ability to advocate for their own rights.

VI works with a number of local and international partners to ensure a 
complimentary response to the protection needs of this vulnerable group 
and has activities ongoing and/or planned in four key areas:

- Oral history research/policy analysis including focus group 
discussions that give vulnerable and marginalised domestic migrant 
workers in Lebanon a voice and forum to advocate for their own rights.

- Social protection interventions supporting and empowering domestic 
migrant workers.

-Promoting/ensuring access to legal aid and more generally justice for 
domestic migrant workers.

-Promoting change in employers’ perceptions and government policy 
through coordinated advocacy campaigns with other local actors.

I am very happy to provide more information on our work and / or the 
situation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. Please find contact 
details below.

Please send all replies to: [log in to unmask]

Thanks for any help with this,

Alice Kennedy
Donor Relations
Voices International
E: [log in to unmask]

T: +961 70 38 65 93 (Overseas/Lebanon)
W: www.voicesinternational.org.au

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