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LERC Activities
(Visits reported by Elie Nabhan)
For full text: www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc
LERC at Launching of Two Reports on Migrant Domestic Workers
Ms. Suzanne Menhem, LERC Research Affiliate,
represented the Center on the 30th March, 2011 at
the launching of two reports on domestic workers in
Lebanon: Trafficking of Migrant Domestic Workers
in Lebanon: A Legal Analysis by Kathleen Hamill and
An Exploratory Study of Psychoanalytic and Social
Factors in the Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers by
Female Employers in Lebanon by Dr. Ray Jureidini. The
launching of these two studies was organized by the
KAFA (Enough) Violence and Exploitation organization
in cooperation with the Institute of Women’s Studies
in the Arab World (IWSAW) and of the Lebanese
American University.
Labor Market
and Social Rights
in Lebanon and
Near East
Reported by LERC staff
Ms. Suzanne Menhem, Research
Affiliate with LERC, represented
the Center on 14-15 April 2011 at
the workshop on Labor Market
and Social Rights in Lebanon and in
the Near East and spoke in French
on The New Migrants in Lebanon:
Living conditions and Work.
This workshop was organized by
IFPO (Institut Français du Proche
Orient) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
at the USJ (Université Saint-Joseph)
in Beirut.
Topics included the general labor
market in Lebanon, Syria and
Jordan, emigrants and immigrants,
Palestinians in the Lebanese
labor market, young graduates,
young workers and women, and
employment and social rights.
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Speakers were Dr. Dima Dabbous-Sensening, Director
of IWSAW, Ms. Cecile Abadie, Head of Section at the
Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon, the
Head of the Trafficking and Exploitation Unit at
KAFA, Ms. Ghada Jabbour, Ms. Kathleen Hamill, and
Dr. Jureidini, whose study aimed at providing “some
preliminary answers to why some female employers
abuse domestic workers while others do not.” The two
reports are now available as part of LERC’s collection.
Pupils from Ecole St.-Charles visit
NDU Museum
Group photo at the Museum of pupils, teachers and presenters (Mar 2011).
June 2011
On Wednesday, 16th March, 2011, forty-two young ladies from Classe
EB8(4ème) at the Ecole St.-Charles des Filles de la Charité situated
in Ashrafieh, Beirut, visited the NDU Museum, led by Mrs. Marleine
Abou Rached (Responsable du cycle). They were taken into the Pierre
Aboukhater Auditorium and given the history of the Stone Wing
Museum and the Frank and Laura Skeels Collection by Museum Warden
Mrs. Caline Saadeh Abi-Saad.
LERC’s chief indexer Mrs. Liliane Haddad then described the activities
of LERC, outlining the history of Lebanese emigration and its economic
aspects Mrs. Haddad pointed out the positive aspects of Lebanese
emigration, which leads to the human and cultural development of
Lebanon, and the negative aspects such as the brain drain as Lebanon’s
best minds and best skilled workers, and especially the educated youth,
leave the country in droves searching for better jobs and opportunities
abroad.
The pupils were then taken down to the Museum to see first-hand what
they had learned about in the presentation by Mrs. Saadeh Abi-Saad.
Mrs. Haddad, seconded by Mr. Elie Nabhan, led the pupils on a tour of
the migration wing of the museum.
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